IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5360 of 2009 Ram Das Roy s/o late Lalljee Roy, retired District & Sessions Judge, Resident of Quarter No.3, Bihar Vidya Peeth, Sadaquat Ashram, P.S. – Patliputra, District – Patna …….. Petitioner Vs- 1. The State Of Bihar through the Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Old Secretariat Building, Patna 2. The High Court of Judicature at Patna, through the Registrar General, Patna High Court, Patna 3. The Registrar General, Patna High Court, Patna ………Respondents ----------- For the petitioner: Mr. Renu Jha, Advocate For the respondents: Mr. Lalit Kishore, AAG –III Mr. S.B.Bharti, AC to AAG -III 3 19/8/2009 Heard Smt. Renu Jha, counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Lalit Kishore, counsel for the respondents. The petitioner has retired from service as District & Sessions Judge w.e.f. 30.9.1992 on attaining the age of 58 years without getting the benefit of extension in age upto 60 years. The petitioner claims that he should have been given the Supertime Scale as many of his juniors were given the Supertime Scale after he had retired from his service. The annexures which have been included indicate that some of the juniors got 2 the Supertime Scale by order dated 23.12.1992 w.e.f. 19.10.1992 & 10.10.1992. The petitioner had obviously retired by then and, therefore, he cannot make a grievance in respect of the Supertime Scale given to some other persons as per Annexure -4. So far Annexures – 5 & 6 are concerned, no doubt, the order was passed in the year 1994 with effect from earlier dates such as 1990,1991 & 1992, when the petitioner was in service. However, the fact remains that such order was passed in the year 1994. Moreover, the petitioner has not been given the benefit of extension in age from 58 to 60 years. The Supertime Scale is given not only on the basis of seniority but by considering the question of merit also. At any rate, the petitioner had kept quiet for a long period and made a representation with regard to the alleged grievance only in 2003 which was rejected on 15th January, 2003. Thereafter, the present writ petition has been filed in 2009. We do not think it would be possible to consider the writ petition since it has been filed after 3 long delay. The petition is, accordingly, dismissed. Neyaz/ (P.K. Misra, CJ.) (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.)