IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16488 of 2008 Krishnamani Devi, widow of late Paramhans Ray, resident of Village Gorpa, P.S. Chouri, District Bhojpur. ... ... Petitioner. Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. Principal Secretary, Department of Human Resources, New Secretariat, Vikash Bhawan, Patna. 3. The Commissioner, Patna Division, Patna. 4. The Director, Primary Education, New Secretariat, Patna. 5. District Magistrate, Bhojpur, Arrah. 6. Deputy Development Commissioner, Arrah. 7. District Provident Fund Officer, Arrah. 8. Treasury Officer, Arrah. 9. Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. 10. The District Program Officer, Bhojpur at Ara. ... ... Respondents. ---------------------------------- 4. 12.12.2011. Heard Shri Sanjay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Shri Rajeev Roy, learned Government Pleader No.5 appearing on behalf of respondent nos.1 to 8 and 10/State of Bihar and Shri Ranjan Kumar, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent No.9/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. It is unfortunate that despite the fact that husband of the petitioner died on 8.6.2008 while functioning as Assistant Teacher, Middle School, Chanda, Tarari in the District of Ara, the petitioner was deprived from getting any death-cum-retiral dues for a long time. The petitioner, for death-cum-retiral dues of her husband, approached this Court by filing the present 2 writ petition on 14.11.2008 after serving copy on learned counsel for the respondents. However, on 8th December,2011, an affidavit has been filed on behalf of District Education Officer, Bhojpur and good gesture has been shown that even in absence of Service Book, the respondent/State had taken step for sanctioning provisional pension and provisional gratuity. It has further been asserted that steps are being taken to finalize all death-cum-retiral dues of husband of the petitioner and paying family pension. Instead of going into details, since respondent/District Education Officer, Bhojpur has taken steps for settling the dispute, the court is of the opinion that writ petition can be disposed of with a direction to the respondents to finalize all the issues relating to death-cum-retiral dues as well as family pension and gratuity within a period of two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The court expects that respondent no.9/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, after receipt of the sanction order from the State 3 authority, shall issue authorization within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of sanction order. Thereafter, all the concern are directed to take immediate steps so that dues as per authorization of the Accountant General may be transmitted to the account of the petitioner without any further delay. It goes without saying that the petitioner shall be entitled to get admissible statutory interest on delayed payment. With above observation and direction, the writ petition stands disposed of. N.H./ ( Rakesh Kumar,J.)