IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14506 of 2008 Shardha Nand Singh, Son of Late Sitaram Singh, Resident of Village Reosan, P.O. Mathigaon, P.S. + District Chandauli (Uttar Pradesh). ------------ Petitioner Versus 1. The State of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary, Water Resources Development Department, Government of Bihar. 3. The Chief Engineer, R.E.O. Special Circle, Patna. 4. The Superintending Engineer, Rural Development, Special Circle- 1, Patna. 5. The Executive Engineer, Rural Engineering Organization Special Division No.2,Rohtas (Sasaram). 6. The Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, Dehri-on-Sone, District Rohtas of Sasaram. 7. The District Provident Fund Officer, Sasaram, District Rohtas, Sasaram. ------------ Respondents ----------- 3 04.05.2010 Heard Mr. Rajendra Prasad Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The prayer in this writ petition is for payment of retirement benefit to the petitioner. Mr. Singh, in this regard submits that such retirement benefit of the petitioner was withheld on account of the fact that he had been dismissed from service. He, however, informs this Court that such order of dismissal of the petitioner was assailed in a separate writ petition C.W.J.C. No. 9981 of 2002 which was allowed by the learned single Judge setting aside the order of punishment 2 whereafter the State had filed an appeal. The petitioner also being aggrieved by some portion of the said order in the aforesaid writ petition had also filed his separate appeal and both of them have also been disposed of. In that view of the matter, now the payment of retirement benefit of the petitioner has to be made in terms of the direction already issued by this Court in the aforementioned writ petition/appeal and only if the order of punishment is no longer in existence. With the aforementioned observations, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)