IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.20930 of 2011 Basudeo Pandit, Son of Late Chuvi Pandit, Resident of Village Fulkaha, P.S. Gamahariya, District - Madhepura, at present residing at Shivpuri Mohalla, Ward No. 14, Saharsa. ----- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar. 2. The Director, Primary Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The District Education Officer, Saharsa, District – Saharsa. 4. The District Programme Officer (Establishment), Saharsa, District – Saharsa. 5. The District Provident Fund Officer, Saharsa, District – Saharsa. 6. The Accountant General, Government of Bihar, Patna. ----- Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 28.11.2011 Heard Sri Sharda Nand Mishra, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Rajeev Kumar, learned A.C. to Government Pleader No. 15, appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 1 to 5/State of Bihar and Sri Prabhat Ranjan, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no. 6 / Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. The petitioner, who retired on 30.04.2011 as ‘Assistant Teacher’ from Harijan Primary School, Gobargaddha, District- Saharsa, has prayed for directing the respondents to pay all his retiral dues. The petitioner has pleaded that after retirement only part amount of G.P.F. has been paid and remaining retiral dues are still outstanding. It was submitted that for the relief sought for in the writ petition the petitioner has also filed representation before the competent authority but till date neither any decision on his representation has been taken nor retiral dues has been settled. In view of the facts and circumstances the court is of the opinion that writ petition can be disposed of granting liberty to file a fresh representation regarding pension, gratuity, leave encashment 2 etc. before respondent no. 4 / District Programme Officer (Establishment), Saharsa, within a period of six weeks from today. If such representation is filed, the respondent no. 4 is required to examine the same and pass appropriate order in accordance with law within a period of six weeks from the date of filing of such representation. If the respondent no. 4 considers the claim of the petitioner as genuine, he is required to pass order for issuance of sanction order. Thereafter, respondent no. 6/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, is required to issue authorization within four weeks from the date of receipt of the sanction order from the state authority. After issuance of authorization all the concerned are required to take all steps to pay retiral dues as per authorization without any delay. So far claim of amount of provident fund is concerned, the petitioner may file representation before respondent no. 5 /District Provident Fund Officer, Saharsa, within six weeks from today. If such representation is filed, the respondent no. 5 is required to examine the same and pass appropriate order redressing the grievances of the petitioner within eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that the petitioner shall be entitled to get admissible statutory interest on delayed payment of provident fund amount. The respondent no. 5 /District Provident Fund Officer, Saharsa, even in case of refusal is required to pass a speaking order and communicate the same to the petitioner within aforesaid time. With above observation and direction the writ petition 3 stands disposed of. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)