IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16040 of 2011 Urmila Devi, Wife of Late Sheo Kumar Paswan, C/o Vijay Prasad Singh, Naya Gaon, Gulzarbagh, P.S. – Alamganj, District – Patna…… Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar. 2. The Principal Secretary-cum-Finance Commissioner, Finance Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. The Director (Press and Stationery), Finance Department, Government of Bihar, Patna. 4. The Deputy Secretary (Press and Stationery), Finance Department, Govt. of Bihar, Patna. 5. The Superintendent, Press and Forms, Gaya, District – Gaya. 6. The District Provident Fund Officer, Gaya. 7. The Accountant General, Bihar, Birchand Patel Path, Patna. ………….. Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 16.09.2011 Heard Smt. Anju Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Aditya Nath Pandey, learned AC to Government Advocate No. 5, who appears on behalf of Respondent Nos. 1 to 6/State and Sri Binod Kumar Labh, learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent No. 7 / Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. The present writ petition has been filed with a prayer to direct the Respondents to pay all death-cum-retiral dues of her husband who died on 06.01.2010 while functioning as ‘Deputy Superintendent, Press and Forms, Gaya’. It has also been stated that till date family pension has not been fixed. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the Respondents authorities are only exchanging letters from each other but no action is being taken for clearing death-cum-retiral dues or fixing family pension. It was further submitted that petitioner has also 2 filed representation before the authority concerned but even then nothing has been done. In view of the facts and circumstances, the court is of the opinion that writ petition can be disposed of granting liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh representation before Respondent Nos. 3 & 5/Director (Press and Stationery), Finance Department, Government of Bihar, Patna & Superintendent, Press and Forms, Gaya respectively within a period of six weeks from today. If such representation is filed, both the aforesaid respondents are directed to take appropriate decision on the representation of the petitioner and if they consider the claim of the petitioner as genuine they are required to take all steps for clearing all the admitted dues and issue sanction order within a period of eight weeks from the date of filing of such representation. The petitioner may also file representation before Respondent No. 6 /District Provident Fund Officer, Gaya regarding claim of provident fund amount of her husband within six weeks, and thereafter, Respondent No. 6 is directed for clearing the dues within eight weeks from the date of filing of such representation. The court expects that Respondent No. 7/ Accountant General , Bihar, Patna shall issue authorization within four weeks from the date of receipt of sanction order from the state authority, and thereafter, Respondents/State are 3 directed to take all steps, so that, the amount as per authorization may be credited to the account of the petitioner without any delay. It goes without saying that petitioner shall be entitled to get admissible statutory interest on delayed payment. With above observation and direction the writ petition stands disposed of. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)