IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.11478 of 2011 Laxmi Narayan Singh Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors ---------------------------------- 2 20.9.2011 Even according to the petitioner he was engaged as Chaukidar on daily wages on 21.4.1986 but removed vide order dated 28.10.1996 contained in Annexure-1. After giving a month’s salary as per the provision of the Industrial Disputes Act, so says the order. Petitioner has woken up only now when he has a case for regularization and pleads discrimination. The assertion of the claim of the petitioner would have merited consideration provided there was some co- relation between the time when the cause of action arose and time when he approached the High Court. Even according to the petitioner he was removed 14 years earlier vide order contained in Memo No.385 dated 26.9.1996 (Annexure-1) but he never assailed the same. Whether such stale claims ought to be entertained and a settled matter allowed to be unsettled now ? is the question which comes in the way due to inaction of the petitioner, irrespective of the so called merit or discrimination the petitioner is alleging. Latches and delay being writ large on the face of the record, writ application is dismissed. AnilKrSinha (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)