IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.2530 of 2009 SAROJ DEVI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 2 26/2/2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner, counsel for the Patna Municipal Corporation as also counsel for the State. The grievance of the petitioner with regard to non payment of retirement dues of her husband Late Arjun Prasad, Sectional Officer in Patna Municipal Corporation, who retired on 31.3.2003, should in the first instance to be looked into by the Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation. What would be the entitlement of Late Arjun Prasad on account of revision of pay scale as adopted and implemented by the Patna Municipal Corporation, will be adjudicated by the Patna Municipal Corporation, but then if any person, who has retired on or after 31.3.2003, has already been paid retirement benefit in the revised pay scale, the same must also be paid to the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. If, however, the 2 Corporation is maintaining any priority list and is making payment as per date of retirement, this Court would direct the concerned authority to also make payment to the petitioner when turn of Late Arjun Prasad on the basis of his date of retirement dated 31.3.2003 comes. With the above observation and direction this application is disposed of. (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.) Abhay Kumar