IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11078 of 2008 Maneshwar Prasad Singh, son of Late Bala Prasad Singh, resident of village Akbarpur, P.o. Akbarpur, P.S. Virpur, District- Purnea. ………… Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar through its Director 2.The Director, Directorate of Elementary Education, Bihar, Patna 3.The Accountant General, Bihar, Patna 4.The District Superintendent of Education, Purnea. …………. Respondents ---------------------------------- 3. 19/09/2011 Petitioner has filed this writ application for a direction to the respondents for payment of arrears of salary and A.C.P. benefits. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was appointed as Head Master by the District Superintendent of Education through Memo No.4952-55 dated 17.2.1990. However, after about nine months, the order was recalled and the District Superintendent of Education thereafter authorized the petitioner to continue to work as Head Master in his own scale. In that capacity, he worked till 31.8.1999. Petitioner has filed this writ application in 2008 claiming that since he worked as Head Master prior to his 2 superannuation, he should be paid his salary. Writ application does not contain a single Annexure or supporting document in support of the claim that he had worked as Head Master under any valid orders of the District Superintendent of Education. It is only on the basis of pleadings made in the writ application that submissions have been advanced. Apart from this, this Court finds that the petitioner superannuated in 1999 and has filed this writ application in 2008 for his pre-retiral claims without explaining the delay of nine years in filing the writ application. This Court finds that the writ application suffers from long delay and laches. It is accordingly dismissed. Pradeep/ ( J. N. Singh,J.)