such he was requested vide letter dated 14th March, 2013 to submit his documents for preparation of pension papers in view of his ensuing retirement i.e. 31st March, 2013. The Petitioner claims to have submitted all the necessary papers before the S.P. (Vigilance), Cuttack and retired from Government service on 31st March, 2013 as A.S.I. of Police (Vigilance). The Petitioner’s pension was sanctioned as per letter dated 13th May, 2015, copy of which is enclosed as Annexure-3 to the Writ Petition. However, his gratuity amount was withheld. The Petitioner approached the authority time and again requesting for release of the gratuity, but the same was not heeded to. Ultimately, by letter dated 30th November, 2016 issued by the Principal Accountant General (A & E), Odisha, Bhubaneswar, it was intimated that the gratuity amounting to Rs.259710/- had been withheld for want of No Due Certificate (N.D.C) from the Pension Sanctioning Authority (PSA) and for excess pay amounting to Rs.11570/- instead of Rs.11140/- paid to him. The N.D.C. was not issued to the Petitioner on the ground that he had not handed over charge of the case records dealt with by him in the court of learned C.J.M., Cuttack. However, no action was taken for which he approached the erstwhile Odisha Administrative Tribunal in O.A.No.3176(C)/2017, which has since been transferred to this Court and registered as the instant Writ Petition.
