IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14074 of 2007 Lalmati Devi, Wife of Shri Motichand Singh, Resident of Village – Rampur Kala Yajirwa, Police Station – Fulwariya, District – Gopalganj. -------------- Petitioner Versus 1. The State Of Bihar. 2. Director, Primary Education, Government of Bihar, Patna. 3. Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. 4. District Account Officer, Siwan Kachhari Campus, Siwan. 5. The Superintendent of Education, Siwan, B.M. Middle School, Siwan. 6. The District Provident Fund Officer, Siwan, Kachhari Camppus, Siwan. 7. The District Treasury Officer, Siwan, Kachhari Campus, Siwan. ----------- Respondents ----------- 2 22.07.2011 Heard Sri Kalyan Shankar, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Subash Sharma, learned AC to GP No. 16, who appears on behalf of respondent nos. 1, 2 & 4 to 6 and learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no. 3/Accountant General, Bihar, Patna. The petitioner, who retired as Teacher from Government Primary School, Mitoli, Darauli, Siwan with effect from 28.02.2002 has prayed for directing the respondents for making payment of the following post retrial benefits:- (i) The payment of contribution of General Provident Fund alongwith upto date statutory interest. (ii) The payment of interest of difference of salary from 01.01.1971 to 31.3.1973 along with upto date interest at the rate and in the manner as applicable to 2 the Provident Fund account. (iii) The payment of revisional pension revised pay scale alongwith upto date interest. The present case was filed in the year 2007 after serving copy on learned counsel for all the respondents. However, till date, no counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of main respondents i.e. respondent nos. 1, 2 & 4 to 6. In this case, a counter affidavit filed on behalf of Accountant General, Bihar, Patna was filed in the month of April, 2008, wherein, it was indicated that office of Accountant General, Bihar, Patna had sent letter to D.S.E., Siwan, on 13.12.2007 for sending service book and required necessary information as regards P.P.O. No. and sanction order in respect of petitioner for the purposes of revision of pension. Even after issuance of letter by the Accountant General, Bihar, Patna, the respondent/State had not taken any notice nor respondent/State has bothered to file any affidavit till date. Accordingly, in absence of any counter affidavit the writ petition stands allowed directing the respondents to take all steps for redressing the claim of the petitioner as indicated above within a period six weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. Court expects that after receipt of sanction regarding revision of pension of the petitioner, the respondent no. 3/Accountant General, Bihar, 3 Patna, shall issue authorization within four weeks from the date of receipt of such sanction. The writ petition stands allowed. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)