IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.9079 of 2007 M/S SAMRAT ENTERPRISES Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2 18.2.2010 Heard learned counsel for the parties. Petitioner is supposed to have effected certain supplies of stationery and other things in the residential office of so called Minister for Science & Technology. These supplies related to period 10.5.95 to 18.7.95. The petitioner has brought on record even of authorization for payment which is dated 2.2.96. There is no reason why the petitioner should have awaited the year till 2007 to claim payment from the respondents on the basis of annexure-1. No doubt he has annexed a legal notice asserting his claim but looking at the period when the supply had been made and the authorization for payment was made and the long gap thereafter before the petitioner has approached the High Court, the Court is not willing to exercise its power under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the staleness and the latches on the part of the petitioner. If the petitioner still can recover his dues from any other forum he can do so but this Court is not willing to pass any direction in his favour on the basis of what has been observed above. This writ application is dismissed. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)