1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR S.B. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO.9447/02 Radhey Shyam Jain vs. JVVNL Date of order : 20/2/2009. HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE MOHAMMAD RAFIQ Shri Rajendra Sharma for the petitioner. Shri Abhishek Sharma for Shri Sandeep Saxena for the respondent. ****** This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner with the prayer that the respondents be directed to treat the petitioner promoted as LDC from the date of promotion granted to his juniors. Reference is made to the promotion granted to some of the persons on 7.8.1980. Learned counsel for the petitioner has produced before the court judgement passed by this Court in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.787/1994, Ashok Kumar Garg & Anr. vs. RSEB & Anr. and eight similar writ petitions which were dismissed for delay and latches and it was held that after lapse of 14 years from the date of accrual of cause of action, the writ petition should not be entertained. Learned counsel for the petitioner however sought to distinguish the aforesaid judgement and argued that the petitioner is 2 only claiming pay protection as granted to his juniors and not promotion as such. Even then, the fact remains that when the cause of action arose on 7.8.1980, the writ petition suffers from delay and latches and not by 14 years but by 22 years in the present case. The writ petition is therefore dismissed. (MOHAMMAD RAFIQ), J. RS/