Kautilya's Arthashastra 1.19.26

1.19.26

upasthānagataḥ kāryārthinām advārāsaṅgaṃ kārayet //

When in the court, he shall never cause his petitioners to wait at the door, for when a king makes himself inaccessible to his people and entrusts his work to his immediate officers, he may be sure to engender confusion in business, and to cause thereby public disaffection, and himself a prey to his enemies.