INDRADEO PRASAD Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND : PRINCIPAL SECRETARY, ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT : DEPUTY SECRETARY, ROAD CONSTRUCTION DEPARTMENT : EXECUTIVE ENGINEER, NATIONAL HIGHWAY DIVISION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the respondent State.

(2.) THE petitioner retired from service under the respondents on the post of Assistant Engineer, Planning and Investigation Division, Road Construction Department, Hazaribagh on 31st January 2003.

(3.) THE petitioner filed his representation on 27.10.2004, but despite lapse of the period of four months stipulated by the order in the earlier writ application, when payments were not forthcoming from the respondents, he filed contempt application. In the contempt application, the respondents offered their replies stating that they had paid the entire admitted dues to the petitioner and upon such assertion, the contempt petition was dropped, though with a liberty to the petitioner to file a fresh representation before the concerned authorities, if any further grievance does still survives even after payment of the retiral dues to him.