THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE L. NARASIMHA REDDY W.P.No.18658 of 2010 ORDER The petitioner is a retired Assistant Registrar from the Osmania University on 28.02.2004. On attaining the age of superannuation, he submitted his pension papers to the respondents. His grievance is that no pension has been sanctioned and released so far. The first respondent filed a counter-affidavit at the stage of admission. It is stated that the pension papers of the petitioner were processed soon after they were submitted, and on finding that the petitioner was drawing minimum pay scale of Rs.1980/-, it became necessary to undertake fresh exercise to re-fix the pay after obtaining the concurrence of the Government. It is stated that the matter is now pending with the Government and in the meanwhile, tentative pension has been released to the petitioner @ Rs.792/-per month and a sum of Rs.1,00,000/-was released. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel for the respondents. The petitioner became entitled to be paid pension on retiring from service in the year 2004. The delay in sanction of the pension appears to be on account of the uncertainty as to the last pay drawn. By the time the petitioner retired from service, his pay was not re-fixed. Sanction of pension on the basis of the last pay drawn would have resulted in financial loss to the petitioner. Obviously to avoid that, the respondents are now pursuing the matter with the Government. In all fairness to the petitioner, the respondents have released the tentative pension @ Rs.792/-per month and paid a lump sum of Rs.1,00,000/-. The grievance of the petitioner stands redressed to a large extent. Hence, the Writ Petition is disposed of, taking on record the steps taken by the respondents and directing that the matter relating to re-fixation of the pay of the petitioner shall be concluded within a period of six months from the date of receipt of this order. The benefits other than pension shall be released to the petitioner, within a period of four weeks from today. There shall be no order as to costs. _____________________ L. NARASIMHA REDDY, J Date: 07.09.2010 sj