Three armourer constables asked the Patna High Court to cancel the 2015 appointment of 81 colleagues made without roster clearance, and to restore their seniority, relying on a 2025 order in another case. The Court dismissed the petition on delay and laches, holding that having stayed silent for 11 years they were fence-sitters who could not ride a later favourable ruling, and that they had failed to implead any of the affected appointees.
