IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA MJC No.657 of 2007 MD.JAMIL Versus STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- For the Petitioner : Mr. Vivek Prasad, Adv. For the State : Mr. Shashi Shekhar, Adv. J.C. to S.C. 20. 7 29.08.2008 This contempt application has been filed for alleged violation of order dated 17th July, 2003 passed in C.W.J.C. No. 1775 of 2000 and other analogous cases including the writ application of the petitioner, namely C.W.J.C. No. 1853 of 2000. This Court disposed of the writ applications with a direction that as and when the fund is made available by the State Government, the petitioner shall be paid retiral dues in terms of the scheme finalized as per the direction of the Apex Court. Learned counsel for the petitioner informs that recently the fund has been made available to the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation and the Apex Court has issued directions for payment of retiral dues of the employees retired from the Corporation. A show cause has been filed on behalf of the State also admitting the fact that time to time fund has been released to 2 the Corporation for meeting its liabilities. It has come in the show cause of the State functionaries that funds have been released by the State for payment of dues of employees of the Corporation retired in the Year 1997- 98. As per the show cause filed on behalf of the Corporation, it is apparent that the petitioner had retired from the Corporation service w.e.f 30.9.1998, hence, in view of the stand of the state functionaries, the liabilities of the petitioners became mature for payment from the funds already released by the State. However, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the retiral dues of the petitioner have not been released by the Corporation till now. It goes without saying that, in view of the stand of the State Government, if the dues of the employees of the Corporation who retired in 1998, and particularly in the month of September onwards, have been paid then there is no reason for the petitioner to be left out from that benefit. In the Circumstances, this contempt application is disposed of. The 3 Administrator of the Corporation is directed to check up as to whether the retiral dues of the employees of the Corporation retired in September, 2008 onwards have been paid or not. If any employee, who has retired after the retirement of the petitioner, has been paid his dues, he shall see to it that all the admitted dues of the petitioner are paid to him as early as possible not later than two months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order or as per the scheme formulated by the Apex Court, as the case may be. Arvind/ ( J.N. Singh, J.)