Indra Bhushan Sinha @ Indu Bhushan Sinha v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court CWJC No. 9866 of 2020, decided 19-01-2024 by Harish Kumar, J. Keywords: gratuity; leave encashment; penal interest; arrears of salary; pensionary benefits; retirement benefits sanctioned Memo No. 1322 dated 20.08.2020; Rs. 10,82,115 credited; enhanced gratuity capped Rs. 3.50 lacs by Board of Directors; Bihar State Food and Civil Supplies Corporation (BSFC); State of Bihar, Department of Food and Civil Supplies; death of sole petitioner on 14.12.2022; legal heirs not appearing; writ petition disposed of; liberty to legal heirs to ventilate grievance in accordance with law. No statute or precedent cited; no merits adjudication; suitable as precedent only for the practice of disposing of writ petitions of deceased sole petitioners with reservation of liberty to successors-in-interest.
What did the court decide?
No monetary relief adjudicated by the Court; liberty reserved to the legal heirs of the deceased petitioner to ventilate any grievance in accordance with law.