IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.19838 of 2011 Ram Kumar Choudhary, Retired as Meter Reader, Son of Late – Ram Prakash Choudhary, Resident of Village – Darhar Post – Lahria Sarai District – Darbhanga. ………. Petitioner Versus 1. The Chairman, Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. 2. The Director, the Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. 3. The Secretary, Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. 4. Accounts Officer-cum-Financial Controller, B.S.E. Board, Patna. 5. General Manager-cum-Chief Engineer, B.S.E.B., Patna. ……… Respondents ---------------------------------- 2 16.11.2011 Heard Sri Ratan Kumar Kunwar, learned counsel for the petitioner and Smt. Namrata Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of all the respondents/Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna. The petitioner, who retired on 31.01.2011 as ‘Meter Reader’ from Danapur, Bihar State Electricity Board, has prayed for directing the respondents to pay sanctioned amount of G.S.S., G.P.F. and leave encashment. Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn my attention to ‘Annexure -1 Series’ to the writ petition which indicates that sanction order by the competent authority vide memo no. 995 dated 23.04.2011 in respect of G.S.S., in respect of G.P.F. vide memo no. 738 dated 09.02.2011 and leave encashment vide memo no. 833 dated 11.04.2011 has already been issued. It was submitted that the aforesaid amount has not been paid till date. In view of the fact that there is no dispute in respect of claim of the petitioner, the court is of the opinion that the writ petition can be allowed at this stage directing the respondents particularly respondent no. 3 & 4/Secretary, Bihar State Electricity 2 Board, Patna & Accounts Officer-cum-Financial Controller, Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna, respectively to pay the aforesaid sanctioned amount within a period of eight weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The writ petition stands allowed with above observation and direction. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)