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22.2. However, this principle is subject to well- recognized exceptions in the form of laches and delays as well as acquiescence. Those persons who did not Patna High Court CWJC No.9987 of 2016 dt.18-09-2017 7 challenge the wrongful action in their cases and acquiesced into the same and woke up after long delay only because of the reason that their counterparts who had approached the court earlier in time succeeded in their efforts, then such employees cannot claim that the benefit of the judgment rendered in the case of similarly situated persons be extended to them. They would be treated as fence-sitters and laches and delays, and/or the acquiescence, would be a valid ground to dismiss their claim.