IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.16624 of 2008 Loknath, Son of Late Sri Ram Anugrah Narain Verma, at present resident of Path No.2, Indrapuri, Ratu Road, Ranchi, P.S. Sukhdeo Nagar, P.O. Hehal, District-Ranchi ----------------------------Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar 2. The Secretary, Building Construction Department, Biswasraiya Bhawan, Bailey Road,Patna 3. The Secretary, Road Construction Department, Bishwasraiya Bhawan, Bailey Road,Patna 4. Engineer-in-Chief, Road Construction Department, Biswasraiya Bhawan, Bailey Road,Patna 5. Executive Engineer, Building Construction Department, Patna West Division, Danapur, Patna 6. Assistant Director, Provident Fund, Pant Bhawan, Bailey Road,Patna 7. Accountant General,Bihar,Patna 8. Treasury Officer, Secretariate, District-Patna --------------------------- Respondents. ---------------------------------- 03 05-12-2011 Heard Sri Rajnandan Prasad, learned counsel for the petitioner, Dr. Mankeshwar Tiwary, learned A.C. to A.A.G.No.5 appearing on behalf of Respondent nos.1 to 6 and 8 and learned counsel appearing on behalf of Respondent/ Accountant General,Bihar,Patna. The petitioner, who retired long back on 31.05.2000 as Junior Engineer from the office of the Executive engineer, Engineering Cell, Health and Family Welfare Department, Patna, after not getting his retiral dues, was constrained to approach this Court by filing the present writ petition in the year 2008 after serving copy of the writ petition on learned counsel for the State as well Accountant General, Bihar. Despite the fact that several years has expired after filing of the writ petition, till date none of the 2 Respondents have bothered to respond to the writ petition. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that only few months back part payment of G.P.F. amount has been made by the authorities concerned. Till date, even full amount of G.P.F. has not been paid nor the petitioner is getting any retiral dues. It has been indicated in the writ petition that the Engineering Cell of Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of Bihar has already been merged with the Building Construction Department. Accordingly in view of the fact that the petitioner retired long back in the year 2000 and till date retiral dues of the petitioner have not been settled nor any counter affidavit has been filed by any of the Respondents, the writ petition stands allowed with direction to the Respondents, particularly Respondent no.2/ Secretary, Building Construction Department, Patna to take all steps so that sanction order regarding all the retiral dues of the petitioner with admissible statutory interest must be issued within eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Thereafter, the Respondent no.7/ Accountant General, Bihar, Patna is required to issue authorization within four weeks from the date of receipt of sanction order from the State authority. After issuance of authorization by the Accountant General, Bihar, all concerned including the Treasury Officer, Secretariat, Patna is directed to take steps, so that all the retiral dues as per authorization may be paid to the petitioner without any delay. Similarly, Respondent no.6/ Assistant Director, Provident Fund, Patna is directed to take all steps so that all amount under the head of G.P.F. along with admissible 3 statutory interest must be paid to the petitioner within eight weeks from the date of receipt/ production of a copy of this order. With above observation/direction, the writ petition stands allowed. NKS/- ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)