IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5646 of 2005 Ram Dineshwar Prasad Singh, S/o Shiv Kumar Singh, Resident of Village Kubauli Ram, P.O. Kubualiram, P.S. Tajpur, District Samastipur retired as Reader, Department of Economics L.K.V.D. College Tajpur, Samastipur. -------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar through its Chief Secretary, Old Secretariat, Patna. 2. The Finance Secretary, Government of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna. 3. The Secretary, Higher Education, Government of Bihar, New Secretariat, Patna. 4. The Vice Chancellor, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga. 5. The Registrar, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga. 6. The Finance Officer, L.N.M.U. Darbhanga. 7. The Principal, L.K.V.D. College, Tajpur, Samastipur. -------- Respondents ----------- 3 16.08.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State as also counsel for the University. The following prayer of the petitioner in this writ application:- “1(a) For a direction to respondents to pay the petitioner the amount of arrear of his salary from 1.1.81 to 31.1.97 which have arisen due to change in salary slab but the difference of salary have not been paid till date. (b) To pay interest and cost over the amount payable to the petitioner.” cannot be entertained by this Court, inasmuch as, the cause of action is of the year 1981 to 1997 whereas the writ application was 2 filed on 3.5.2005. Once this aspect was made clear to the counsel for the petitioner, he sought permission of this Court to withdraw this application in order to move the competent authority of the University for claiming payment of admitted salary. This Court, accordingly, would permit the petitioner to withdraw this application and in the event the University would find that any amount is admitted by it and payable to the petitioner, it would be for the University to also extend payment thereof to the petitioner within a reasonable period preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. This application is accordingly dismissed as withdrawn but it is made clear that the petitioner will have no liberty to move this Court again for same cause of action. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)