IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.18098 of 2011 Harishchandra Yadav, S/o Late Mauze Yadav, Resident of Village – Baijutola Kanakpur, P.S. – Sakri, District – Madhubani…. Petitioner Versus 1. The Bihar State Electricity Board through its Chairman, Bailey Road, Patna. 2. The Chairman, Bihar State Electricity Board, Bailey Road, Patna. 3. The Secretary, Bihar State Electricity Board, Bailey Road, Patna. 4. The General Manager-cum-Chief Engineer, Mithila Area Board, Darbhanga. 5. The Electrical Superintending Engineer, Electrical Supply Circle (Rural) Darbhanga. 6. The Electrical Executive Engineer, Electric Supply Division, Darbhanga (Rural), Darbhanga. 7. Deputy Director Accounts, Office at Mithila Electric Supply Area, Darbhanga. ……… Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 14.10.2011 Heard Sri Amarendra Narayan, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt. Namrata Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of all the Respondents / Bihar State Electricity Board. The petitioner, who retired on 31.07.2010 as “Junior Lineman” from Electrical Supply Sub-Division Sakri, Darbhanga, has prayed for directing the Respondents to pay all his retiral dues. It was submitted that till date nothing has been paid to the petitioner nor petitioner is getting even provisional pension. Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn my attention to Annexures – „2‟, „3‟ & „4‟ to the writ petition and submits that the competent authority had already sanctioned amount of gratuity on 09.02.2011, G.S.S. on 20.09.2010 and leave encashment for 127 days was sanctioned on 28.09.2010. Even aforesaid sanctioned 2 amount has not been paid till date. The petitioner has further made it clear that sanction order in respect of Provident Fund amount amounting to Rs. 5,68,216.00/- was made on 20.10.2010, but that amount has also not been paid. In view of the facts and circumstances, the court is of the opinion that after sanction of the aforesaid amount by the competent authority, there is no reason to withhold the payment. Accordingly, the writ petition stands allowed, directing the Respondents, particularly Respondent No. 4/General Manager-cum-Chief Engineer, Mithila Area Board, Darbhanga, to take all steps for payment of sanctioned amount of gratuity, G.P.F., leave encashment and G.S.S. within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt / production of a copy of this order. The petitioner shall also be entitled to get simple interest at the rate of 04% per annum on the sanctioned amount from the date of order of sanction till the date of payment. Regarding fixation of final pension, the Respondent No. 4, is directed to take all steps, so that, final pension of the petitioner may be fixed and payment of pension must be started within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The petitioner has made specific statement in paragraph no. 6 that the service career of the petitioner was unblemished and no proceeding was pending against him at the time of his retirement. 3 With above observation and direction the writ petition stands allowed. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)