IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4387 of 2007 Md.Moniruddin Siddique, son of Late Sheikh Sabrati aged about 72 years, resident of village Tanakmas, P.S. Tanakmas, Ghogha, District- Bhagalpur ……….. Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar through the Director of Secondary Education, Amrapali Bhawan, District- Patna, Bihar 2.The District Education Officer, in the campus of Collectorate, North Gandhi Maidan, Patna 3.The State of Jharkhand (Ranchi) through the Regional Deputy Director of Education, Dumka 4.District Education Officer, Sahibganj/Pakur District Sahibganj Santhal Pargana (Jharkhand) 5.The Accountant General, Bihar, Jharkhand (Ranchi and Patna) ……………. Respondents ----------- 6. 12/05/2010 In this writ application, petitioner has prayed for payment of salary of the period from 28.6.1969 to 6.4.1971. For this claim, writ application was filed in 2007. Even if the statement made in paragraph 7 of the writ application is accepted that petitioner had moved this Court earlier through C.W.J.C.No.12821 of 2001, the statement shows that the said writ application was filed for payment of retiral dues. Even counting upto 2001, the delay of 30 years in claiming the said dues is too much for this Court to entertain this writ application. Submissions of learned counsel for the petitioner, that leave of the period was sanctioned to him, is also not tenable in view of the statement made by - 2 - the petitioner himself in his representation, as contained in Annexure-3, that the same was sanctioned by the Managing Committee vide its resolution no.7 dated 3.3.1980. That also reduces the delay only by nine years and remaining 21 years still remain to be explained. The writ application is accordingly dismissed on account of delay and laches. Pradeep/ ( J.N. Singh, J.)