IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3893 of 2006 RAM BILAS SINGH Versus THE UNION OF INDIA & ORS ----------- 2 9.2.2009 Heard counsel for the parties. The grievance of the petitioner in this writ application is that a recommendation was made by the Government of Bihar through its State Advisory Committee for grant of pension under the Freedom Fighter Pension Scheme which was also sent to the authorities of the Government of India by a communication dated 31.7.1996 but, till date, no decision has been communicated as with regard to either accepting or rejecting the said recommendation in favour of the petitioner. Counsel for the Government of India, on whom the copy of the writ application was served some three years back, is not in a position to say anything because till date, he has not received any instruction. In the opinion of this Court, by keeping the matter pending over three years, no purpose has been served and therefore this court without awaiting any further for filing of the counter affidavit by the Respondent would dispose of this writ application with a direction to authorities of the Government of India to 2 take a final decision in the matter of grant of pension to the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. It goes without saying that if any further information is to be obtained by the Government of India either from the Government of Bihar or from the petitioner, the same must be made available by them including the heirs/legal representative of the petitioner in view of the fact the petitioner is said to have died recently during the pendency of this writ application. It is made clear that the death of the petitioner will not stand in the way of the Government of India to take a decision and at least, the arrear or other entitlement, as per the claim of the petitioner, must be settled in accordance with law. With the aforementioned observations/direction, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)