Santosh Kumar Patel v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Retiral benefits; pension; aided educational institution employees; Odisha Aided Educational Institutions Employees' Retirement Benefit Rules 1981; Director of Higher Education Odisha; direction to consider release of pension and retiral benefits; coordinate Bench precedent Hemant Kumar Chhotaray 2024 (I) OLR 709; four-month compliance timeline; W.P.(C) No.22047 of 2024; Justice B. P. Routray; High Court of Orissa at Cuttack; writ petition disposed of on 18.09.2024.
What did the court decide?
Direction to Opposite Party No. 3 (Director, Higher Education, Odisha, Bhubaneswar) to consider release of pension and retiral benefits in favour of the Petitioner in accordance with law, keeping in view the decision in Hemant Kumar Chhotaray vs. State of Odisha and others, 2024 (I) OLR 709, within four months from the date of receipt of certified copy of the order.