CWP (T) No. 5931 of 2008. 10.7.2009 Present: Mr. Adarsh K. Vashisht, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. R.K. Bawa, Advocate General with Mr. Ankush Dass Sood, Addl. A.G. and Mr. Anil Jaswal, Dy.A.G. for the respondents. The petitioner is seeking direction to the respondents to count the previous services he has rendered with effect from 6.1.1972 to 3.10.1974 and also the period with effect from 1.11.1974 to 6.1.1975 for the purpose of pay fixation. He has also sought a direction to the respondents to give him revised pay scale with effect from 1.1.1986 to 31.12.1995 along with interest at the rate of 18 per cent per annum. The representation made by the petitioner was rejected by the competent authority. He has filed the writ petition after his retirement. We have heard Mr. Adharsh K. Vashisht and have gone through the pleadings carefully. The present petition is apparently barred by delay and laches. The petitioner is seeking relief for counting his previous services he has rendered from 1972 to 1975. He is also seeking revised pay scale with effect from 1.1.1986. The present petition has been filed in the year 2006. In case the petitioner was aggrieved by the action of the respondents of not counting his previous services or non release of revised pay scales in the year 1986, he ought to have challenged the same within a reasonable period of one to two years after the cause of action has arisen. The petitioner has not explained the delay in filing this petition belatedly after the accrual of cause of action in the years 1975 and 1986. This Court will not go into the stale claim. The representations made by the petitioner will not make the matter active/alive since the same is stale. Accordingly, there is no merit in this petition and the same is dismissed. No costs. (Jagdish Bhalla), C.J. (Rajiv Sharma), J. July 10, 2009. (cr)