IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.16483 of 2008 SHUBH NARAYAN MISHRA, son of late Biseswar Mishra, resident of village Bishunpur, P.S. Katra, District Muzaffarpur … Petitioner Versus 1. THE STATE OF BIHAR 2. Engineer in Chief cum Special Secretary, Irrigation Department, 3rd Secretariat, Patna 3. Superintending Engineer, Shuresh Karya Anchal, Bagmati Nagar, Sitamarhi 4. Executive Engineer, Bagmati Anchal, Runnisaidpur, Sitamarhi … Respondents. ----------- 2. 4.5.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. The grievance of the petitioner in this writ application as can be culled out from the prayer made in paragraph 1 reads as follows: “ i) A direction may be given to the respondents in the nature of an appropriate writ for taking charge from the petitioner who retired from service long ago but taking of charge from him is not being done despite many request made by the petitioner in this respect and necessary order passed by the authorities concerned. ii) The respondents may be directed to make payment of earned leave amount (Rs. 1 lac and 08 thousand) with penal interest till the date of payment.” 2 Counsel for the petitioner very fairly submits that both the grievances have been redressed. He, however, wanted to elongate the proceedings of this case by taking a plea that certain recovery proceeding has been launched and/or initiated. Unfortunately that cannot be scope of this limited writ petition confined to the retirement benefit. That being so, this application has become infructuous and is dismissed accordingly with a liberty to the petitioner to approach the appropriate authority/ forum as against the action initiating recovery proceedings. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/