Narayan Yadav Inter College Vs The State of Bihar — Patna HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

Narayan Yadav Inter College Vs The State of Bihar — Patna HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

What the court decided

AI extract

Outcome

Direction to respondent no. 2 (Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II, Regional Office, Bhagalpur) to decide the petitioner's representation dated 08.01.2025 and reminders dated 13.03.2025 and 03.04.2025 strictly in accordance with law, as expeditiously as possible preferably within four weeks of receipt of a copy of the order, after affording the petitioner an opportunity of hearing, and to communicate any order passed to the parties.

Issue for consideration

Whether respondent no. 2 (the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II, Regional Office, Bhagalpur) should be directed to consider and decide the petitioner's representation dated 08.01.2025 and reminders dated 13.03.2025 and 03.04.2025 seeking rectification of the amounts imposed by the authorities vide order dated 30.08.2024, strictly in accordance with law and within a time frame.

Court's answer

Without going into the merits or demerits of the case, the writ petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent no. 2 to consider the petitioner's representation dated 08.01.2025 and the reminders dated 13.03.2025 and 03.04.2025.

Ratio / Principle

The consideration of the representation and reminders is to be done as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of the order.

Key takeaways

Before passing any order on the representation, the petitioner shall be granted an opportunity of hearing.ratio¶19
Any order passed on the representation shall be communicated to the parties.ratio¶20

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Patna High Court (A. Abhishek Reddy, J), CWJC No.10844 of 2025, order dated 15-09-2025: Narayan Yadav Inter College (through Ramkishor Sharma) sought rectification of amounts imposed on it by the authorities' order dated 30.08.2024 (Annexure-P/1), having filed a representation dated 08.01.2025 and reminders dated 13.03.2025 and 03.04.2025 before respondent no. 2, the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II, Regional Office, Bhagalpur. Without entering into the merits, the Court disposed of the writ petition, directing respondent no. 2 to consider the representation and reminders as expeditiously as possible, preferably within four weeks of receiving a copy of the order, to grant the petitioner an opportunity of hearing before passing any order, and to communicate the order passed to the parties. Respondent no. 2 raised no objection to such a direction. No statute or precedent is cited in this short oral order.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.10844 of 2025

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Narayan Yadav Inter College through its authorized representation namely Ramkishor Sharma, Aged About - 81 years, Gender- M, Son of Late Narsingh Sharma, Resident of - Manjhgain, Majhgain, Munger, District- Munger, Pin813321.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar through the Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Education, Government of Bihar.

The Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-II, Regional Office, Bhagalpur. 3. The Branch Manager, Union Bank of India, Branch- Ganeli, Tarapur, Munger.

Nirmala Kumari, the then Principal, Narayan Yadav Inter College, Bhagalpur.

... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Sriram Krishna, Adv. Mr. Amarjeet, Adv. For the Respondent/s : Mr. Swapnil Kumar Singh, AC to GP -19 For Resp. No. 2 : Ms. Ruchi Mandal, Adv. For Resp. No. 3 : Mr. Shiv Pratap, Adv. Ms. Kumari Shalini, Adv.

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE A. ABHISHEK REDDY ORAL ORDER

3 15-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it

would suffice that if a direction is given to the respondent authority i.e. respondent no. 2-the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner -II, Regional Office, Bhagalpur for considering the representation dated 08.01.2025, reminders dated 13.03.2025 and 03.04.2025 seeking rectification of the amounts imposed by the authorities vide order dated 30.08.2024

Patna High Court CWJC No.10844 of 2025(3) dt.15-09-2025 2/2

(Annexure -P/1), by fixing a time frame.

Learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no. 2 submits that she has no objection if the direction is given to the authorities to decide the representation of the petitioner strictly in accordance with law.

Having regard to the above-made submissions, without going into merits or demerits of the case, the present writ petition is disposed of, directing the respondent no. 2 to consider the representation of the petitioner dated 08.01.2025 and reminders dated 13.03.2025, 03.04.2025 as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

It is needless to mention that before passing any order, the petitioner shall be granted an opportunity of hearing.

Any order passed, shall be communicated to the

parties.

With the aforesaid direction, the writ petition stands disposed of.

(A. Abhishek Reddy , J)

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