IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.6670 of 2008 Ramkaran Prasad Singh, son of Late Ram Swarath Singh, resident of Village-Rampur Masaun, P.O. Sundarpur, Via- Bariyarpur, P.S. Sakra, District- Muzaffarpur --- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The District Magistrate, Munger, District- Munger 3. The Deputy Collector ( Establishment), Munger, District- Munger 4. The Block Development Officer, Dharhara, District-Munger 5. The Provident Fund Officer, Munger, District-Munger 6. The Accountant General,Bihar,Patna ------------------------- Respondents. ---------------------------------- 02 22-09-2011 Heard Sri V.K.Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Arjun Prasad Singh, learned A.C. to Standing Counsel no.2, who appears on behalf of Respondent nos.1 to 5 and Sri Arun Kumar Arun, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent no.6/ Accountant General,Bihar,Patna. The present writ petition has been filed in the year 2008 with a prayer to direct the Respondents to pay all the retiral dues of the petitioner. The petitioner retired as Village Level Worker from the office of Respondent no.4 long back in the year 1995.It was submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that thereafter the petitioner approached the authorities concerned on number of occasions for clearing his retiral dues and when all his such efforts went in vein , the petitioner was constrained to approach this court by filing the present writ petition. The writ petition was filed in the month of April, 2008 after serving copy of the same on learned counsel for the 2 Respondents. Despite expiry of such a long time, till date no counter affidavit on behalf of the Respondent/State has been filed. In this case, a counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of Respondent no.6/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, wherein it has been specifically stated that regarding the retiral dues of the petitioner, the Respondent no.6 had requested vide letter no. Pen-16- 178-179 dated 29.05.2008 to the Block Development Officer, Dharhara, Munger for sending the service book and other pension papers. Even thereafter the Respondent no.4 has not bothered to respond to the writ petition and no counter affidavit has been filed. In view of the facts and circumstances of the case, the Court is of the opinion that the writ petition can be allowed on the basis of materials available on record and even in absence of counter affidavit on behalf of the State with a direction to the Respondent no.4/ Block Development Officer, Dharhara, District-Munger to take all steps , so that sanction order for all the retiral dues may be received in the office of the Respondent no.6/ Accountant General,Bihar,Patna within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Thereafter, the Court expects that the Accountant General, Bihar will issue authorization within four weeks from the date of receipt of sanction order. The Respondents/State are further directed to take all steps, so that the amount may be credited in the account of the petitioner without any further delay. So far as the amount of G.P.F. is concerned, the Respondent no.5 is directed to take all steps for payment of G.P.F. amount to the petitioner within a period two months from the date 3 of receipt/production of a copy of this order along with admissible statutory interest. With above observation and direction, the writ petition stands disposed of. NKS/- ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)