PATNA, India, Aug. 4 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on July 15:
Upon repeated calls, no one appears on behalf of the petitioner. However, Learned Counsel for the State is present.
2. It transpires to this Court that vide order dated 18.12.2024, no one appeared on behalf of the petitioner. The present writ application has been filed for directing the respondent BISCOMAN Patna to pay the amount dues of the petitioner in form his monthly salary from 1996 to 2007. Further prayer has been made to release the amount due in the form of gratuidy, provident fund and other incidental and consequential benefits in the account of the petitioner.
3. Counsel for the State submits that from the counter-affidavit, it has come that against BISCOMAN, the present writ petition is not maintainable as the petitioner being a workman, may file his case before the Labour Court for the relief as prayed for, in the light of judgment passed by this Hon'ble Court vide order dated 22.07.2024 passed in CWJC No.16990 of 2022.
4. Upon perusal of the said order, it transpires that this Court has made a series of discussions contained in paragraph Nos.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 which states as follows:-
4. The petitioners sought a direction from this Court to ensure their post retiral benefit(s) in view of the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Ashok Kumar Ram v. The State of Bihar and Others [Special Leave Petition (Civil) Diary No. (s) 6011 of 2018] arising out of judgment dated 12.07.2017 in M.J.C. No. 5719 of 2013, passed by the learned co-ordinate Bench of this Court and in view of Memo No. 796 dated 02.02.2018 relating to scheme formulated for Employees of Board/Corporation/Society issued by the Department of Finance, Government of Bihar, Patna.
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