1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY BENCH AT AURANGABAD Writ Petition No.1278 OF 2009 Mohd. Ayaz Shaikh Imamuddin ... Petitioner. Versus Chairman, Dr. Zakir Hussain Urdu High School and Junior College, Yawal and Others. ... Respondents. -------- Shri. S.D. Kulkarni, holding for Shri. V.T. Choudhari, Advocate for petitioner. Shri. P.R. Katneshwarkar, Advocate for respondent No.1. Shri. D.R. Kale, Assistant Government Pleader for respondent No.4 and 5. -------- CORAM: NARESH H PATIL & N.D. DESHPANDE, JJ. DATE: 25th MARCH 2010 PER COURT : 1) Heard. 2) According to the petitioner he worked as Librarian with the respondent management 2 since the year 1998. He was not paid salary. The post of Librarian is not sanctioned. In this petition the petitioner prayed for directions to respondent Nos.3,4 and 5 to sanction the post of full time Librarian and to pay salary with effect from 1-7-1998 till today. 3) The management has preferred not to file any reply. It is informed by the learned AGP that the management has preferred a writ petition bearing Writ Petition Stamp No.3360 of 2010 for identical relief. It seems that the parties do not dispute that the post was not sanctioned. We are not satisfied as to why the petitioner chose to work without salary in an unsanctioned post since the year 1998 onwards and decided to approach this Court after near about ten years for claiming such relief. The delay is abnormal and not 3 explained properly. There are laches on the part of the petitioner. The petitioner should have been diligent in agitating the grievances in writ Court. For all these reasons we are not inclined to exercise our extraordinary writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. However, the petitioner is at liberty to resort to alternate appropriate remedies as permissible in law. 4) The writ petition is dismissed. (N.D. DESHPANDE, J.) (NARESH H PATIL, J.) rsl/ wp.1278.09