I.A. Ansari, J.

This appeal is preferred against the order, dated 15.7.2014, passed in C.W.J.C. No.15784 of 2006, whereby a learned single Judge of this Court has dismissed the writ application filed by the appellant herein seeking directions to be issued to the respondents to make payment of salary for the period from 18.9.1990 to 24.1.1993. For dismissing the writ application, the learned single Judge took the view that the writ petitioner’s claim was essentially for realization of money, which is apparently barred by limitation inasmuch as the writ application was filed, as noted by the learned single Judge, after inordinate delay of 13 years with no plausible explanation having been offered for the delay. In the appeal too, the writ petitioner-appellant has not been able to provide any plausible, convincing or reasonable explanation for the delay.

2. Considering the fact that the appellant has assigned no convincing or plausible reason for filing the writ petition after inordinate delay of as many as 13 years, we do not find any reason to take a view contrary to what has been taken by the learned single Judge.

3. It is rudimentary that the Supreme Court has observed that reli