IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.17323 of 2011 Hare Ram Chaudhary, S/o Late Lakshmi Narayan Chaudhary, Resident of village – Kanhauli ( Purbari-tol), P.S. – Manigachhi, District – Darbhanga. …….. Petitioner Versus 1. The Bihar State Electricity Board through its Chairman, Bailey Road Patna. 2. The Chairman, Bihar State Electricity Board, Bailey Road Patna. 3. The Secretary, Bihar State Electricity Board, Bailey Road Patna. 4. The General Manager-cum-Chief Engineer, Mithila Area Board, Darbhanga. 5. The Director (Terminal Benefits) Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. 6. The Electrical Superintending Engineer, Electrical Supply Circle (Rural) Darbhanga. 7. The Electrical Executive Engineer, Electric Supply Division, Darbhanga (Rural), Darbhanga. 8. The Assistant Electrical Engineer, Electric Supply Sub-division Sakri, Darbhanga. 9. The Deputy Director Accounts, office at Mithila Electric Supply Area, Darbhanga. …………… Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 28.09.2011 Heard Sri Amrendra Narayan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Vijay Kumar Verma, learned counsel appearing on behalf of all the respondents/Bihar State Electricity Board. The petitioner, who retired on 30.11.2010 as ‘Accounts Assistant’ from the office of Electric Supply Sub-division, Sakri under Electric Supply Division (Rural) Darbhanga, has prayed for directing the respondents to pay all his retiral dues. It was submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that after retirement all the retiral dues have already been sanctioned except the amount of GSS & GPF. It was submitted that despite the issuance of sanction order the respondents particularly the respondent no. 7 /Electrical Executive Engineer, Electric Supply Division, Darbhanga (Rural), Darbhanga, is not paying any heed for clearing the dues. 2 Learned counsel for the petitioner has made specific statement regarding sanction of the terminal dues of the petitioner. In view of the fact that retiral dues under almost all the heads have already been sanctioned except GSS & GPF, the court is of the opinion that writ petition can be disposed of at this stage directing the respondents particularly the respondent no. 7 to immediately pay all the retiral dues to the petitioner within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt / production of a copy of this order. So far as claim of GSS & GPF is concerned, the respondents particularly the respondent no. 4 / General Manager-cum-Chief Engineer, Mithila Area Board, Darbhanga, is directed to take all steps for sanctioning the amount under aforesaid heads within six weeks from the date of receipt / production of a copy of this order. Thereafter, the respondent no. 7 is required to pass payment order within four weeks from the date of receipt of the sanction order. The petitioner shall be entitled to get admissible statutory interest on delayed payment. With above observation and direction the writ petition stands disposed of. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)