SUBHADRA DEBI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE petitioner in this writ application has prayed for issuance of an appropriate writ commanding the respondents to pay the arrears of gratuity together with interest, leave encashment and other retiral dues payable in the account of the deceased husband of the petitioner, who died in harness on 15.04.1995. A further prayer has been made by respondents not to compel the petitioner to vacate the quarter No. 1/3 -I -Type situated within the D.G.M.S. Colony, Dhanbad, till the entire outstanding retiral dues are not paid.

(3.) DESPITE the aforesaid direction of the Central Administrative Tribunal, the petitioner did not vacate the quarter fully. Rather, the petitioner claims to have vacated a major portion of the quarter except retaining one room for the purpose of enabling medical treatment for her ailing daughter.