IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA LPA No.638 of 2008 RAM KARAN SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Appellant : Mr. Arun Kumar, Advocate Mr. Shankar Kumar, Advocate ----------- P R E S E N T Hon'ble the Chief Justice & Hon'ble Mr. Justice Kishore K. Mandal ----------- Dated, the 20th August, 2008. Appeal suffers from delay of 43 days and for condonation thereof, an application (I.A. No.5009 of 2008) has been made. Even if, we condone the delay in filing the appeal for the reasons set out in the application, we are of the view that the letters patent appeal does not deserve to be admitted. 2. The petitioner sought directions to be issued to the respondents to pay salary relating to the year 1985. It transpires that initially he filed a writ petition being C.W.J.C. No. 9682 of 1988, which admittedly came to be dismissed in default. Then in the year 2001, another writ petition was filed for the self same relief. Besides that the writ petition filed by the petitioner suffers from laches, acquiescence and delay, the earlier writ petition having been dismissed in default, the petitioner cannot be permitted to reagitate the same issue 2 by filing another writ petition. 3. Dismissal of writ petition, in the circumstances, by the Single Judge cannot be faulted. 4. L.P.A. is dismissed in limine. 5. This disposes of I.A. No. 5009 of 2008 as well. R. M. Lodha, CJ Kishore K. Mandal, J Pawan/-