Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:84434 Court No. - 38 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 2943 of 2016 Petitioner :- Shiv Prasad Trivedi Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Arvind Srivastava,Sharique Ahmed Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Donadi Ramesh,J. 1. Heard Sri Arvind Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State respondents. 2. Present writ petition has been filed for direction to the respondent no. 2 to finalize the petitioner's claim for payment of pension and other post retiral dues i.e. Gratuity, Group Insurance, G.P.F. and Provident Fund along with interest. 3. After notice, the respondents have filed their counter affidavit on 24.02.2016. According to the assertions made in the counter affidavit, the respondents have received a letter of communication from the management that the petitioner had indulged in misplacement of financial records and has also not handed over the charge of the post held by him to the person designated for the purpose. Accordingly, the Finance Controller, Higher Education vide letter dated 12.12.2011 directed the petitioner to co-operate with the college for removal of impediments necessary for the release of pension. And when the respondent institution has not complied the earlier directions, the authorities have issued a letter for stoppage of salary of the concerned Principal also. 4. Apart from the above, learned counsel for the petitioner on instructions has submitted that G.P.F. was given in 2010 and pension and other benefits were released in 2017, but the respondents have not released the gratuity to the petitioner so far. 5. Taking said fact into consideration, as there are no substantial issues forthcoming for not releasing pension to the petitioner, hence, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents to release all retiral benefits which are due as of now, within a period of two months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. It is needless to mention that for delayed payment of retiral benefits, the petitioner is also entitled to interest as per rules. Order Date :- 20.5.2025 Noman (Donadi Ramesh, J.) Digitally signed by :- NOMAN AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- NOMAN AHMAD High Court of Judicature at Allahabad