IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.146 of 2009 Dineshwar Paswan, aged 63 years, son of Late Sundar Paswan, resident of Village- Behrari, P.O. Kewatna, P.S. Ghoghardiha, District-Madhubani -------------------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through the Commissioner-cum- Secretary, Secondary, Primary and Adult Education, Human Resources Department, Bihar, Vikash Bhawan, Patna 2. The Director, Provident Fund Directorate, Pant Bhawan, Patna 3. The District Superintendent of Education, Madhubani 4. The District Provident Fund Officer, Madhubani 5. The District Magistrate, Madhubani ------------------------------ Respondents. ---------------------------------- 03 15-12-2011 Heard Sri Ajay Kumar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt. Manisha Singh, learned A.C. to Govt. Advocate no.1 appearing on behalf of the Respondent/State. The present writ petition was filed in the year 2009 with a prayer to direct the Respondents to pay the remaining amount of G.P.F. along with admissible statutory interest. The case was taken up for hearing on the point of admission on 25.03.2009 and this Court had issued direction to the Respondent no.3/District Superintendent of Education, Madhubani as well as Respondent no.4/ District Provident Fund Officer, Madhubani for filing counter affidavit within six weeks. Till date no counter affidavit has been filed. The petitioner had retired on 31.05.2005 as a Matric trained teacher from Madhya Vidyalaya, Fatki under Madhepur Circle in the district of Madhubani. The petitioner has claimed for payment of G.P.F. amount along with admissible statutory interest. 2 In view of the fact that the petitioner retired in the year 2005 and till date no counter affidavit has been filed as also the fact that the grievance of the petitioner has not been redressed till date, there is no reason to keep the matter further pending. The writ petition stands allowed with a direction to the Respondent nos.2, 3 and 4 to take all steps, so that the remaining amount of G.P.F. of the petitioner along with admissible statutory interest must be paid to the petitioner within eight weeks from the date of receipt /production of a copy of this order. The writ petition stands allowed. NKS/- ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)