IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.7956 of 2008 Shakaldeo Singh, son of late Narsing Singh, resident of village Ufrol, Police Station Deshari, District Vaishali, at present posted as 4th Grade Employee, and working as Peon in Rajkiya Mahilla Mahavidyalaya, Gulzarbagh, Police Station Sultanganj, District Patna……………………………………………………………………….Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar. 2. The Director, Higher Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. District Superintendent of Education, Patna. 4. The Principal, Rajkiya Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Gulzarbagh, Police Station Sultanganj, District Patna……………….Respondents ----------- For Petitioner: M/s Upendra Prasad, Veena Kumari Jaiswal & Chandra Kala Jaiswal, Advocates For the State: A.C. to S.C. No.4 3 14.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned counsel for the State. From paragraph 1 of the writ application it appears that the petitioner has filed this writ application for a direction to the respondents for payment of arrears of salary of the period from the month of March 1979 to July 1979 and to add the amount of provident fund deducted in the name of petitioner with effect from 1975-76 in place of 1981. This writ application has been filed on 14.05.2008 i.e. almost 30 years after 2 cause of action arose to the petitioner. The application, therefore, suffers from gross delay and laches. However, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner’s retirement benefits have not been fixed and paid to him although he has retired on 31st March, 2011. In the circumstances, the writ application is dismissed on the ground of gross delay and laches, with an observation that retiral benefits of the petitioner should be finalized and paid to him on an early date. BT (J. N. Singh, J.)