S. Ali Ahmad, and S.B. Sanyal, JJ.

The prayer in this application was to direct the respondents for issue of necessary paper for payment of pension and gratuity. It is said that the petitioner superannuated with effect from 1st April, 1981 and he was granted 75% of pension by ORDER :dated 31.8.81 for two years. By ORDER :dated 27.8.1983, he was granted 90% of his pension for two years, but thereafter the petitioner has not been paid an/thing. The grievance of petitioner is that be has been running to get his pension and gratuity, but no step in that direction is being taken. This application was, therefore, filed on 5th October, 1985 for the relief aforementioned.

2. Keeping in view the fact that superannuated officer must be paid his gratuity and pension at the earliest, we wanted to dispose of the case at the admission stage and with that purpose in view we adjourned it on several occasions to enable the learned State Counsel to get instructions. Mr. Government Advocate in spite of his best efforts could get only partial instruction in the matter on 13.1.86. That was not sufficient for the disposal of the application. We, therefore, passed an interim ORDER :directing the res