IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9856 of 2003 SHIVDHAWAJA RAM son of Sri Baijnath Ram Resident of Village Ghhewari, P.S. Ramgarh, District Kaimur at Bhabhua. Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR through the Director, Primary Education Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 2. District Officer, Kaimur. 3. District Education Superintendent Kaimur at Bhabua. 4. Block Education Extension Officer, Kudra P.S. Kudra, District Kaimur. 5. The Block Development officer, Durgawati P.S. Durgawati, Kaimur. ----------- 6 17.09.2010 Having heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State as with regard to the prayer of the petitioner in this writ application concerning the order of punishment dated 11.12.1997 withholding one increment of the petitioner with non cumulative effect as also depriving him from salary beyond subsistence allowance for the period of suspension, this Court is of the view that this writ application is not only belated but also not maintainable, inasmuch as, the impugned order of punishment had been passed on 11.12.1997 whereas this writ application was filed almost after six years on 12.9.2003 and that too without exhausting the statutory alternative remedy of appeal under Rule 10 of fcgkj jkT; jktdh;d`r izkjfEHkd f”{kd (LFkkukUrj.k ,oa vuq”klfud dkjZokbZ) fu;ekoyh] 1994. That being so, this application is dismissed. Abhay Kumar ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)