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Going by the petitioners own dates and events, they want retrospective promotion w.e.f. 2002 in case of petitioners No.1, 2 & 3 and 1995 in case of petitioner No.4. They have filed this petition in the year 2020. They are late by decades in approaching the Court. Even If we consider the petitioners scale down expectations of grant of due date of promotion from the date where the vacancies arose, by their own account such event took place in the year 2004. Stretching this issue further, at any rate the petitioners were granted actual promotion on 27 th May, 2006. This promotional order made it clear that the effect of promotion is prospective. If the petitioners were aggrieved by this order to the extent it did not give them backdated seniority or due date of promotion, they should have moved the Court within a reasonable time. The petition is filed more than 14 years after the cause of action had arisen.