IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1458 of 2009 Prakash Chandra Lal . Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors . ----------- 2. 12.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, for the State of Bihar and for the State of Jharkhand. The petitioner is stated to have been in the services of the State of Bihar now allocated to the State of Jharkhand. He now states that he is a resident in the U.S.A. While he was in the service of the erstwhile State of Bihar, his son was diagnosed for Bone Marrow Transplantation for Thalassaemia Major in the Christian Medical College Hospital at Vellore. This was sanctioned by the State Government under Rule 26 of the Bihar Medical Assistance Rules on 26.4.1995. He was given an advance of Rs. 3,20,000/-. The bills submitted by him was for Rs. 6,53,929/-. The respondents sanctioned payment of Rs. 5,93,300/-only and a sum of Rs. 60,628/- was disallowed on 26.5.1997. Likewise, he submitted certain bills for post BMT check-up on 20.5.1997 for a sum of Rs. 54,500/- and is aggrieved by the denial of the same also amounting to a total of Rs. 1,15,128/-. There is no pleading in the writ application what steps were taken by the petitioner after 2 rejection of the former bill on 26.5.1997 and for enforcement of his claim under the bill dated 20.5.1997. The pleadings in the writ application reflect that he started to pursue the matter by representations through his father in the year 2000, 2002 and last in 2003. The writ petition was then filed six years later in 2003. Counsel for the petitioner with reference to Pargraph-4 of the writ petition on the query of the Court submits that the petitioner is now a resident of the United States of America and has applied for voluntary retirement. The Court is satisfied that the issues sought to be raised being very old and stale, the Court is not persuaded to entertain the same in exercise of its discretionary writ jurisdiction. The writ application is dismissed. P. Kumar ( Navin Sinha, J.)