RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD, J.

Challenge in this Letters Patent Appeal is to the order dated 06.07.2012 passed by the learned Writ Court in C.W.J.C. No. 2323 of 2012 by which the learned Writ Court has refused to quash the order dated 13.09.2011 (Annexure-14 to the Writ Application) passed by the respondent Principal Secretary, Department of Health, Medical Education and Family Welfare, Government of Bihar, Patna rejecting the representation of the petitioner for his promotion to the post of Associate Professor and Professor in the department of Pathology.

2. It appears that the petitioner moved this Court under Article 226 of the Constitution for quashing of the order as contained in Annexure-14 mainly on the ground that the persons like Dr. Manorama Mishra and Dr. R.P. Agrawal have been given promotion pursuant to the order dated 16.07.2007 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 6386 of 2005. The petitioner claimed that treating him alike Dr. Manorama Mishra and Dr. R.P. Agrawal, the respondents be directed to promote him from the relevant date as Associate Professor on completion of five years of his service as Assistant Clinical Pathologist and thereafter to promote him as Professor on compl