IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14986 of 2007 1.RANVEER SINGH @ RANBIR SINGH son of late Chandrika Singh, resident of village-Chirand, P.S. Doriganj, District-Saran. 2.Anita Kumari, D/O Rameshwar Singh, resident of village-Fatehpur, P.S. Parsa, District Saran. 3.Harendra Singh, son of Shri Bhagwan Singh, resident of village-Gangpur Shishwan, P.S. Shishwan, District Siwan. 4.Anil Kumar Verma, Son of Surendra Prasad Verma, resident of Mohalla Chapra, P.S. Chapra Town, District Saran. 5.Sunil Kumar Singh, son of Ram Naresh Singh, resident of village Bishunpura, P.S. Chapra Muffasil, District Saran. 6.Tej Narayan Singh, son of Sabhapati Singh, resident of village Bishunpura, P.S. Chapra Muffasil, District Saran (Chapra). 7.Suresh Kumar Singh, son of Jagdish Prasad Singh, resident of village Parshurampur, P.S. Dariyapur, District Saran (Chapra). 8.Ram Singar Rai, son of Shri Dharamnath Rai, resident of village Porai, P.S. Dariyapur, District Saran (Chapra). 9.Kumari Ramavati, daughter of Sunderdeo Singh, resident of village Barauli, P.S. Barauli, District Gopalganj. 10.Umesh Kumar Singh, son of Bharat Singh, resident of village Umadha, P.S. Chapra Mufassil, District Saran (Chapra). --------------------------Petitioners. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through Secretary Secondary Education Government of Bihar, Patna. 2.The Bihar School Examination Board, Patna through its Secretary Sinha Library Road, Patna-1. 3.The Secretary Bihar School Examination Board, Sinha Library Road, Patna-1. 4.The District Education Officer Saran at Chapra District Saran. -------------------------------Respondents. with CWJC No.15860 of 2007 2 1.DIP NARAYAN RAI, son of Shri Kanhai Lal Rai resident of villalge-Persurampur, P.S. Dariyapur, District Saran (Chapra). 2.Surendra Prasad Rai, son of Shri Bhagirath Rai resident of village-Bishahi, P.S. Dariyapur, District- Saran (Chapra). 3.Harihar Prasad Singh son of Shri Mauji Lal Singh, resident of village Bhikhari Chapra, P.S. Persa, District Saran. 4.Raghunandan Rai, son of Jangali Rai, resident of village- Persurampur, P.S. Dariyapur, District-Saran, Chapra. --------------------------------Petitioners. Versus 1.THE STATE OF BIHAR through Secretary, Secondary Education Government of Bihar, Patna. 2.The Bihar School Examination Board, Patna through its Secretary Sinha Libray Road, Patna.1. 3.The Secretary, Bihar School Examination Board, Sinha Library Road, Patna-1. 4.The District Education Officer, Saran at Chapra District-Saran. -----------------------------Respondents. ----------- 19 12-04-2010 Heard Mr. Janardan Prasad Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners appearing in both the cases, learned counsel for the State and the Bihar School Examination Board., The petitioners in both these writ petitions claiming to be students of Prabhunath Singh (Mantrijee) Physical Training College and Yoga Institute, Dahiyawan, Chapra (Saran) and allegedly undergone C.P.Ed/D.P.Ed. course in the Sessions 1982-83, 1983-84, 1984-85 and 1985-86 and also appeared in the 3 examination conducted by the Bihar School Examination Board in the year 1989, have moved this Court for declaration of their result by filing these two writ petitions in the year, 2007. Counsel for the Board has taken a preliminary objection as with regard to maintainability of the writ application on the ground of unexplained delay of 17 to 18 years even from the date of examination. A further plea has been taken that the Bihar School Examination Board has no records. Learned counsel for the Board has also referred to various pleas taken in this regard in the counter affidavit of the Board, but we would refrain ourselves from going into the same as in our considered opinion delay of at least 18 to 19 years in approaching this Court for declaration of result for the examination held in the year 1989 by itself is fatal. This question, in fact, has been also examined and settled by a Division Bench of this Court in the case of ‘Upendra Bahadur Singh Vs. Bihar School Examination Board & Ors’, wherein the order of the learned Single Judge was affirmed in appeal by the Division Bench in the order 4 dated 19.5.2005 holding that the Courts are meant for those who are vigilant and not for those who are indolent and sleepy. In that case delay of 13 years was taken to be fatal in the order dismissing the writ application. Similar view has been taken by the learned Single Judge of this Court in the order dated 12.8.2003 in C.W.J.C. No.3340 of 2003, wherein also the delay of 12 years was held to be fatal. Similarly a learned Single Judge of this Court in his order dated 9.8.2006 in C.W.J.C. No.1070 of 2006 had held the delay of 11 years to be fatal for maintaining the writ application seeking declaration of result of 1995 examination. Even recently a Learned Single Judge of this Court by an order dated 30.6.2009 in C.W.J.C. No. 12625 of 2009 had dismissed the writ application for declaration of result on the ground of delay of more than 17 years in filing of the writ petition. Such order of learned Single Judge has also been affirmed by the Division bench in L.P.A. No. 1352 of 2009 by an order dated .01.04.2010. Thus, for the reasons indicated above, we find that here also both the writ application are suffering from 5 vice of unexplained delay and laches of more than seventeen years and therefore without going into the merits of this case we would dismiss both the writ application on this ground alone. There would be, however, no order as to costs. (Dipak Misra, C.J.) Abhay Kumar ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)