IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3919 of 2006 ANITA PANDEY Versus VEER KUWAR SINGH UNIVERSITY & ORS ----------- 07/ 12.05.2010 Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner, Ms. Sujata Mukherjee, learned counsel for the Veer Kuwar Singh University and Mr. Sanjay Kumar, junior counsel to Mr. Jai Shankar Barnwal are present. The only issue raised in the writ petition is regarding payment of the group insurance amount of Rs. 96,000/- by reason of death of the husband of the petitioner who died in harness in an accident on 10.11.1992. In the counter affidavit filed on behalf of Veer Kuwar Singh University, the said claim of the petitioner has been found not admissible by the authorities of Veer Kuwar Singh University. Learned counsel for the said University submits that since the premium were being deducted by the Magadh University, hence the amount of the group insurance would also be paid by the said University. It so appears that Veer Kunwar Singh University was carved out from the Magadh University in the month of October, 1992 and as a consequence whereof the services of the husband of the petitioner stood transferred to Veer Kuwar Singh University with effect from the said date. Thus on the date of death the husband of the petitioner was an employee of Veer 2 Kunwar Singh University and thus the retiral benefits have been paid by Veer Kunwar Singh University. Having paid the retiral benefits to the petitioner, it does not lie in the mouth of the respondent-University to deny the claim of the petitioner for payment of group insurance under the group insurance scheme on grounds that the deduction of premium had been carried out by the Magadh University. The responsibility and the liability lies with the Veer Kuwar Singh University. In that view of the matter, the concerned authority of the Veer Kunwar Singh University is directed to make payment of the group insurance amount found admissible to the petitioner together with admissible interest within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The writ petition is disposed of. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, J.)