IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.20756 of 2011 Deo Chandra Jha, Son of Late Gopal Jha, Resident of Village – Kasarar North, P.S. – Ghanshyampur, District – Darbhanga. --------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Director General of Bihar, Old Secretariat, Patna. 3. The Inspector General of Police, Darbhanga, Commissionary, Darbhanga. 4. The Superintendent of Police, Aurangabad. 5. The Superintendent of Police, Siwan. 6. The Superintendent of Police, Begusarai. 7. The Senior Superintendent of Police, Darbhanga. 8. The District Provident Fund Officer, Darbhanga. 9. The Accountant General of Bihar, Patna. ------------- Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 25.11.2011 Heard Sri Manoj Kumar Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Anirudh Mishra, learned A.C. to Government Pleader No. 13, appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 1 to 8 and learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 9/Account General, Bihar, Patna. The petitioner, who retired on 30.09.2010 as ‘Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police’, at Police Station – ‘Kusheshwarsthan’ in the District of Darbhanga, has prayed for directing the Respondents to pay all his retiral dues. It has been pleaded that though the petitioner retired in the month of September, 2010, even after expiry of more than one year no retiral dues has been paid to the petitioner. In view of the fact, Respondents are directed to take all steps to finalize all the retiral dues of the petitioner within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Respondent No. 9/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, is required to issue authorization within four weeks from the date of 2 receipt of sanction order from the State authority and thereafter all the concerned are directed to take steps so that as per authorization retiral dues must be paid to the petitioner without any delay. Respondent No. 8 / District Provident Fund Officer, Darbhanga, is directed to pay the amount under the head of G.P.F. to the petitioner along with admissible statutory interest within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that the petitioner shall be entitled to get admissible statutory interest on all delayed payments. Respondent/State would be at liberty to recover the amount of interest from the officer/employee responsible for delay in payment. The writ petition stands allowed. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)