IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14164 of 2002 PUNAM LAL, aged about 38 years, wife of Bachu Lal Razak, resident of Mohalla Sultanganj, P.O. Mahendru, P.S. Sultanganj, District Patna, at present posted as Assistant Teacher Primary School Dalhatta Malsalami, Patna City, Patna … Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. The Director Primary Education 3. The District Superintendent of Education, patna … Respondents. ----------- 3. 1.7.2010 No one appears for the petitioner. The prayer of the petitioner in this writ application reads as follows: “The present writ application is being filed under compelling circumstances praying for a direction to the respondent authorities to fix the salary of the petitioner who is an untrained Assistant teacher in the scale of Rs. 1200-2040 for the period from 1988 to 1995, as the same is admissible under the provision issued vide memo No. 998 dated 7.6.1995 (Annexure 2/1) and after fixing the salary in the said scale, the accruing difference of salary be paid to her.” From the reading of the aforementioned prayer, it would be clear that the claim for payment of salary by the petitioner was made after 14 years of the alleged entitlement. 2 That being so, this application is wholly belated and must be dismissed on the ground of delay and laches. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/