IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.17307 of 2010 JEEV NANDAN RAM S/O LATE K. RAM R/O VILL.- DHARAKHARA, P.O.- KAKARIA, VIA- DHANSOI, DISTT.- BUXAR ______ Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. THE DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, BHOJPUR AT ARA 3. THE DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION OFFICER, BHOJPUR AT ARA 4. THE DISTT. EDUCATION OFFICER, BHOJPUR AT ARA ______ Respondents ----------- 02. 12.5.2011 Annexure-3 is dated 22.2.1991. By virtue of this order a punishment of censure was imposed upon the petitioner for not participating in the census work. Writ has been filed only on 8.10.2010 seeking a direction upon the respondents that he has not been paid subsistence allowance for the period he was under suspension. Petitioner retired from service in the year 1995. All his retiral dues had been settled in the last century but why he has chosen to wait for 20 years and to claim subsistence allowance only in the year 2010, is not explained by the petitioner in the writ application. The system of the Court cannot be burdened with such stale kind of claims which are more than two decades old. If the petitioner had a right, he should have been vigilant to assert it within a reasonable time frame but 20 years is a long time, in my opinion, to give any 2 indulgence to the petitioner now. Writ is dismissed. rkp ( Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)