Ramesh Thakur v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.24623 of 2018 ====================================================== Ramesh Thakur S/O Late Bhup Narain Thakur, resident of Village-Kharagpur, P.S.-Desari, District-Vaishali at Hajipur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar through the Principal Secretary, Department of Finance, Government of Bihar, Patna 2.

The Additional Secretary, Department Water Resources, Government of Bihar, Patna.

3.

The Engineer-in-Chief (Headquarter), Department of Water Resources, Government of Bihar, Patna.

4.

The Accountant General (A and E), Bihar, Patna. 5.

The Treasury Officer, Secretariat Treasury, Sinchai Bhawan, Bailey Road, Patna.

6.

The Director, G.P.F., Bihar, Patna 7.

The District Provident Fund Officer, Patna ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Suneil Kumar Thakur, Advocate Mr. Deepak Sahay Jamuar, Advocate For the State :

Mr. AC to AAG-4 For the AG : Mr. Ranjan Kumar, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. NILU AGRAWAL ORAL JUDGMENT Date : 29-04-2019 Counsel for the petitioner has filed reply to the counter affidavit filed on behalf of Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 to implead the Director, G.P.F., Bihar, Patna and the District Provident Fund Officer, Patna as party respondents.

2. Let the Director, G.P.F., Bihar, Patna and the District Provident Fund Officer, Patna be impleaded as Respondent Nos. 6 and 7 respectively in the array of respondents.

Patna High Court CWJC No.24623 of 2018 dt.29-04-2019 2/2

3. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the State and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the Accountant General, Bihar, Patna.

4. Petitioner retired as Upper Division Clerk on 30.06.2018 from the office of the Engineer-in-Chief (Headquarters), Department of Water Resources, Government of Bihar, Patna. He submits that entire retiral benefits have been paid but part of the GPF amount is still not paid.

5. Considering the nature of claim made by the petitioner, this writ application is disposed of with a direction to the petitioner to ventilate his grievance before the Director, Provident Fund, Bihar, Patna by filing a representation regarding payment of part G.P.F. if any, which will be disposed of within a period of three months from the date of filing of such representation. Any amount due to the petitioner would be paid within one month thereafter.

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