IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.5559 of 2010 1. DR. GIRISH PRASAD S/O LATE JAGARNATH PRASAD R/O YOGINEE, P.O. KOATH, P.S. DAWATH, DISTT.- ROHTAS Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE DIRECTOR, ANIMAL HUSBANDRY DEVELOPMENT, BIHAR, PATNA 3. THE DEPUTY DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONER, BIHAR, PATNA 4. THE DIRECTOR, DISTRICT RURAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY, PATNA 5. THE ACCOUNTANT GENERAL, BIHAR, BIRCHAND PATEL MARG, PATNA ----------- 3/ 21/06/2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner retired from the post of Assistant Project Officer in Animal Husbandry Department on 31.8.2000. He seeks the relief for grant of increments of salary during his service tenure from 1983. If the delay on his part in seeking relief from 1983 till superannuation in 2000 was not enough to reject his claim, his problems are surmounted by the writ petition filed ten years after the superannuation. The position becomes worse for him when he admits that he did not pass the departmental examination for grant of increments in his service tenure and made an application for exemption a week or so before his superannuation. The writ application is not only bared by gross and inordinate delay, but even on merits the petitioner has not been able to make any case as the grant of exemption was not a matter of right. He has only himself to blame in not even seeking the relief on 2 exemption in time. The application stands dismissed. KC ( Navin Sinha, J.)