IN THE HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND AT NAINITAL Writ Petition No. 1346(S/S) 2005 Smt. Radha Devi W/o late Sri Mohan Ram, Resident of Shanti Niwas, Jamrani Road, Damwadhunga, Haldwani, District Nainital ……Petitioner Versus 1. State of Uttarakhand, through Secretary, Dehradun. 2. Executive Engineer, Electricity Distribution Div. Gopershwar, District Chamoli, Uttarakhand. ……Respondents. Sri Pramod Bailwal, learned counsel for the petitioner. Sri Harendra Belwal, learned Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand, Sri B.D. Upadhyay, learned counsel for Power Corporation/respondent no.2 Hon’ble M.M. Ghildiyal, J. Heard Sri Pramod Bailwal, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Harendra Belwal, learned Standing Counsel for the State of Uttarakhand and Sri B.D. Upadhyay, learned counsel for Power Corporation/respondent no.2. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:- 1. To issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to pay the entire amount due of the gratuity and pension of the petitioner with interest in the Electricity Department. 2. To issue any other writ, order or direction which this Hon’ble Court may deem fit and proper, 3. To award the cost to the petitioner. 2 The writ petition was filed on 13th September 2005. On 10.03.2006, this Court passed order directing the respondents to pay the petitioner entire amount of his retrial dues, pension and gratuity or show cause within two weeks from the date of receiving a copy of the order. In spite of the order passed by this Court the respondents have neither shown the cause nor the counsel for the petitioner is able to inform the Court whether he has received the amount of pension and gratuity due towards him? In these circumstances, I deem it fit and proper to direct the respondents to make payment of the amount of pension and gratuity for which the petitioner is entitled in accordance with law, within a period of three weeks from the date of production of a certified copy of this order, provided the same has yet not been paid to him. With these directions, the writ petition is finally disposed of. No order as to costs. (M.M. Ghildiyal, J.) March 15, 2007: NCM: