(Per: Hon'ble Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah)

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned counsel appearing for the State.

2. The Letters Patent Appeal has been tiled against the order dated 8.4.2009 in C.W.J.C. No. 4323 of 2009 (Avinash Chandra Singh vs. The State of Bihar & Ors.) by which the writ petition has been dismissed.

3. The grievance of the writ petitioner was that he was not given his second time bound promotion as well as two• due A.C.Ps. only on the ground that he had not passed the Departmental Accounts Examination held by the Board of Revenue. The learned Single Judge did not find any merit in the writ petition and the same came to be dismissed.

4. In the present appeal learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn our attention to the policy of the State Government as contained in Annexure-4 which is the letter dated 12.8.1992 of the Government in which in clause 4(i) it is clearly mentioned that persons who had been granted promotion prior to 1.9.1983 would not be reverted only on the ground that they had not passed such departmental examination. It was further provided that in view of them having already been granted promotion prior to 1.9.1983,