The plaintiff instituted a suit for recovery of damages of 50,000/- against the defendants in terms of pleadings that while serving as a teacher at Government Elementary School, Bhowal, District Ropar, he had applied for an advance amount of 1 lac from his GPF account but the same had been intentionally and willfully not released within time and on account of the delay caused in releasing the said amount, he had been forced to borrow the amount from some body at an exorbitant rate of interest . It was pleaded that the son of the plaintiff was studying in Odessa University in Ukraine and the amount of 1 lac that he had applied for advance from his GPF account, had to be spent on the studies of his son. The plaintiff pleaded that the matter regarding release of advance amount from his GPF account were kept pending by the defendants on one pretext or the other and as such, he is entitled to recover the damages to the extent of 50,000/-. The suit was contested and it was stated in the written statement that advance of ` 1 lac from the GPF account had been released to the plaintiff without any delay. It was also pleaded that whatever minor delay that may have occurred, was only on account of certain formalities in procedure being completed and as such, the plaintiff was not entitled for any recovery with respect to damages.
