RAMAYAN PRASAD SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER in this writ application has prayed for a direction commanding upon the respondent Nos. 1 and 2 in particular, to immediately and forthwith grant all pensionary benefits including the pension to the petitioner for his services rendered in the office of Deputy Commissioner, Dhanbad on and from 20.2.1961 till 31.5.1981 and also to direct the respondent Nos. l' and 2 to pay the gratuity amount to the petitioner in respect of the services rendered by him during the period under the State of Bihar, now Jharkhand.

(2.) THE petitioner's case in brief is that he was appointed as a Lower Division Clerk and posted in the office of Deputy Commissioner, Dhanbad on 20.2.1961. In due course, he was granted promotion to the post of Upper Division Clerk with corresponding scale of pay on 5.7.1978. After implementation of the recommendation of the 4th Pay Revision Committee, his scale was enhanced on and from 1.4.1981. Later, on being selected to the post of Revenue Inspector under the B.C.C.L., he was offered the post of Revenue Inspector by the B.C.C.L. on 10.2.1981. Consequently, he relinquished his job in the Dhanbad Collectoriate and was relieved from duty on 31.5.1981 and on 1.6.1981 he joined the B.C.C.L. from where he superannuated on 31.12.2000.

(3.) REFUTING the above stand of the respondents, learned counsel for the petitioner explains that the objections raised by the respondents against the petitioner's claim is misconceived in view of the fact that the issue as to whether the Government employee who had served under the Government for sometime and has joined any autonomous body of the Central Government or the State Government shall get the benefit of pension and retiral benefits, has been decided by the Government of Bihar in the Department of Finance and duly notified to all the concerned departments vide notification dated 19.3.1990 (Annexure -4).