THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L.NARASIMHA REDDY WRIT PETITION No.27816 of 2011 ORDER: The petitioner claims to have retired from the services of the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society, Kotabommali, respondent No.2 herein, on attaining the age of superannuation. This writ petition is filed with a prayer to direct the respondents to pay arrears of salary for the period from 12.04.1998 to October, 2010 and from 01.05.2001 to April 2005. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader for Revenue. On the face of it, the writ petition is not maintainable. The petitioner claims the arrears from the period 1998 to 2005 with certain breaks. If the Society did not pay the salary for that period, he ought to have taken steps within a reasonable time. The claim, which the petitioner makes through the writ petition, cannot be entertained either in a suit or in a petition filed under the Payment of Wages Act. Article 226 of the Constitution of India cannot be pressed into service to resurrect the time barred claims. Hence, the writ petition is dismissed. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L.NARASIMHA REDDY,J Dt:12.10.2011. kdl