IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.17555 of 2011 Smt.Sashmita Kumari, W/o Upendra Narayan Karn, Resident of Mohalla- Purvi Patel Nagar, House No. 17, Road No. 6, P.S. – Shashtrinagar, District – Patna. --------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Principle Secretary, Secondary Education, Human Resources Development Deptt., Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director, Secondary Education, Budhdha Marg, Patna. 4. The Regional Deputy Director of Education, Patna. 5. The District Education Officer, Patna. 6. The Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. 7. The District Provident Fund Officer, Patna. ----------- Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 30.09.2011 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to implead District Provident Fund Officer, Patna, as Respondent No. 7. Heard Sri Kripa Nand Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Suresh Kumar, learned AC to Government Pleader No. 5, who appears on behalf of Respondent No. 1 to 5/State and Sri Manikant Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 6/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. The petitioner, who retired on 31.05.2010, as ‘Headmistress’, Lokeshwari Girls High School, Kadamkuan, Patna, has prayed for directing the Respondents to pay all her retiral dues. It was submitted that despite the fact that the petitioner retired in the month of May, 2010, till date, nothing has been paid to her. Even provisional pension has not been fixed. The petitioner has drawn my attention 2 to paragraph no. 13 to the writ petition, wherein, a categorical statement has been made that neither any criminal case nor any departmental proceeding was pending against the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that the petitioner for her retiral dues has approached the authority concerned by filing number of representations but all went in vain. In view of the facts and circumstances, the court is of the opinion that writ petition can be allowed at this stage. Accordingly, same stands allowed, with a direction to Respondents, particularly, the Respondent No. 5 / District Education Officer, Patna, to take all steps for clearing all the retiral dues of the petitioner within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The Respondent No. 5, is further directed to issue sanction order in respect of pension, gratuity, commutation and other dues within eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The court expects that the Respondent No. 6/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, will issue authorization within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of sanction order from the State authority. So far as amount of provident fund is concerned, the Respondent No. 5 & 7, are directed to take 3 all steps for payment of the said amount along with admissible statutory interest within eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It is hereby made clear that after receipt of authorization from the office of Accountant General, Bihar there shall be no delay in payment. With above observation and direction the writ petition stands allowed. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)