IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.14148 of 2008 Dinesh Kumar, son of Sri Arjun Singh, resident of village Sahgajpur, P.S. Narhat, District- Nawada. ………….. Petitioner Versus 1.The State Of Bihar 2.The Director, Primary Education, Department of Human Resource, Govt. of Bihar, Vikash Bhawan, Patna 3.The District Magistrate, Nawada 4.The Regional Deputy Director of Education, Nawada 5.The District Superintendent of Education, Nawada 6.The Secretary, Managing Committee, Madhya Vidyalaya, Nanhu Bigha, P.S. Atri, District- Gaya. ………….. Respondents ---------------------------------- 3. 15/11/2011 Prayer of the petitioner in this writ application is for payment of his salary on the basis of a letter of the District Superintendent of Education, Gaya dated 14.4.1982, as contained in Annexure-2. Admittedly, School in which petitioner was/is allegedly working was never taken over by the Government. For delay in filing the present writ application, reliance is being placed on an order of this Court dated 8.11.2003 passed in C.W.J.C.No.9196 of 2003, preferred before this Court by the Association, by which the writ application was dismissed with an observation that individual teachers may file individual writ application. Even after that order of 2003, 2 petitioner has preferred this writ application in 2008 for payment of salary on the basis of the letter of the District Superintendent of Education of 1982 as aforesaid. In the counter affidavit it has been stated that since the School of the petitioner was not taken over, the State Government is not obliged to pay salary of the petitioner. It is also stated that the State Government does not intend to take over any more Schools. In the circumstances, petitioner has no legal right to claim salary from the State for services rendered in the School which was not taken over by the State Government. Besides, apparently this application suffers from gross delay and laches. This writ application is accordingly dismissed. Pradeep/ ( J. N. Singh,J.)