IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11877 of 2002 SUNITA LALL daughter of Sri Manilal Yadav, resident of 223, M. I. G. Kankarbagh, P. S.- Kankarbagh, Dist.- Patna. … Petitioner. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR, through the Commissioner and Secretary, Higher Education Department, Govt. of Bihar. 2. The Magadh University, Bodh Gaya, through its Registrar. 3. The Vice Chancellor, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. 4. The Registrar, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. 5. The Finance Officer, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya. 6. The Principal, T. P. S. College, Patna. 7. The Principal, S.M.D., College, Punpun. … Respondents. ----------- 4. 28.06.2010 No one appears for the petitioner. Counsel for the University is present. In this writ petition the prayer of the petitioner is confined to payment of salary for the certain period of December 1996 to February 1997 and June 2001 to 26.11.2001. In this case an order was passed on 25.10.2002 directing the counsel for the University to take instruction and inform this Court as to whether arrears of salary of the petitioner has been paid to her. It however transpires that this case infact was again listed on 20.11.2002 when the counsel for the University was again given time for a 2 period of two weeks for filing counter affidavit. Thereafter this case has been taken up only today after period of more than seven and half years but there is no counter affidavit on behalf of the University. The Counsel for the University would seek another adjournment so that he could become able to comply the order of this Court by filing a counter affidavit. It is really unfortunate for this Court to note that the authorities of the University have taken this Court for granted. Such counter affidavits infact had to be filed soon after the copy of the writ petition was served on the retained counsel. This Court can not keep waiting for an endless period only for filing of the counter-affidavit. In this case as noted above a period of almost eight years has not been good enough for filing of the counter affidavit. In that view of the matter, this Court instead of adjourning this case any further, would direct the Vice-chancellor and Registrar of the Magadh University to 3 consider the grievance of the petitioner and pass a reasoned order as with regard to the claim of payment of salary within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that if the petitioner is found entitled to and has not been paid salary for the period in question involved in this writ petition, she must be paid the same within a period of next 15 days from the date of such order of the Vice- chancellor. The Registrar of the University thereafter would also submit a compliance report to the Registry of this Court. With the aforementioned observation and direction, this writ petition is disposed of. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)