CHANDRA PRABHA DEVI WITH JAGO MANDAL WITH VEENA DEVI WITH RAM DAS MANDAL Vs. REGIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN all the cases as the petitioners have claimed for common relief of grant of death -cum -retiral benefits under the Triple Benefit Scheme - -Scheme for short - -they ware heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.

(2.) THE husband of petitioner Chandra Prabha Devi of CWJC No. 607 of 2000, Late Pashupati Lal was in the services of Regional Institute of Technology. Jamshedpur - -RIT for short. It is stated that the deceased husband of petitioner Late Pashupati Lal opted for benefit under the Scheme but it was not allowed and, in the meantime, he died on 10th November 95 in harness. The grievance of the petitioner Chandra Prabha Devi is that the respondents had not paid the retrial benefits of family pension : gratuity; and Provident Fund under the Scheme.

(3.) THE respondents have taken plea that the petitioners having retired/or deceased husband of one or other petitioner having died prior to 6th September, 1999, were not entitled for retiral benefits under the Scheme.