1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION NO. 5871 OF 2007 Shri Madhukar Krishnarao Patil ...... Petitioner. V/s Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. & Ors. ...... Respondents. ----- Mr. V.A. Sugdare for the Petitioner. Mr. Pradeep Bakhru i/b M/s Diya Shah Assocaites for the Respondents.. ---- CORAM : D.K. DESHMUKH & V.M. KANADE, JJ. DATE : 12 th December, 2007. P.C.: By this Petition, the Petitioner claims direction to the respondents to compute value of the annuity in respect of the petitioner’s case. The annuity was calculated after the Petitioner retired in 1995 and it was communicated to the Petitioner by letter dated 23rd April 1999. The first representation in relation to the calculation of the annuity was made on 30 th November, 2004 and it is, thereafter, that this Petition is filed in 2007. The Petitioner, obviously, is guilty of laches. Petition cannot be entertained and is rejected. (D.K. DESHMUKH, J.) 2 (V.M. KANADE, J.)