HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE RAMESH RANGANATHAN WRIT PETITION No.14074 of 2000 ORDER: The petitioner, a Divisional Marketing Officer with the 1st respondent, questions the fixation of his seniority, vis-a-vis respondent Nos.2 and 3, as Marketing Officers vide proceedings dated 20.10.1987. The seniority fixed in the year 1987 is subjected to challenge in this Writ Petition, filed in the year 2000 after a lapse of thirteen years. The justification given for the inordinate delay is that the petitioner had been submitting representations periodically. Mere submission of repeated representations would not justify a Writ Petition being entertained, with regards fixation of seniority, more than thirteen years after the seniority was fixed. Merely by filing repeated or delayed representations, the petitioner cannot get over obstacles which delay in approaching the Court creates because equitable rights of others have arisen. (Amrit Lal v. Collector C.E.C. Revenue[1]). The Writ Petition is liable to be, and is accordingly, dismissed on the ground of inordinate delay and laches. However, in the circumstances, without costs. ____________________________ RAMESH RANGANATHAN, J Date: 22.07.2010 MRKR [1] AIR 1975 SC 538