IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.1953 of 2004 MOSTT.LAWANGA DEVI & ORS Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the petitioners : Mr. Prem Nath Singh, Adv. For the respondent Magadh University : Mr. Vivekanand Kumar, Adv. -------- 12/ 11-07-2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel for the University. This writ petition had been filed by the original petitioner Dharmdeo Singh for his retiral dues which were fixed treating his length of service to be 29½ years although according to him the length of his service was 30½ years as he had joined on 16.8.1960 and retired on 31.12.1990 as a Reader-cum- Head of the Department of Economics in Guru Gobind Singh College, Patna City under Magadh University. During the pendency of the writ petition the said original petitioner died on 18.9.2005, whereafter his widow Most. Lawanga Devi and his son Kameshwar Singh were substituted in his place. The grievance of the newly added petitioners is that even their family pensions have not been fixed and paid. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent authorities to fix the family pension of petitioner No. 1, namely, widow of the deceased employee and start paying the same along with arrears of family pension within three months from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. So far as question of calculation of retiral dues of the - 2 - original petitioner, treating his length of service to be 30½ years, is concerned, a liberty is given to the petitioners to file an application before the Registrar, Magadh University, Bodh Gaya ( respondent No. 4) along with a copy of this order and all relevant materials within four weeks from today. If such an application is filed within the aforesaid prescribed period, the Registrar shall consider the same in accordance with law and dispose it of by a speaking order within eight weeks thereafter. If any amount is found payable to the petitioner, it should be paid to them immediately thereafter. B. Tiwary/ ( S. N. Hussain, J )