The question involved in this Original Petition is regarding the amount due to the petitioner who was an advocate from the Welfare Fund.

2. The petitioner enrolled as an advocate on 19-1-1942. He had been practising at Palghat and was a member of the Palghat District Bar Association till 31-3-1991. When the Kerala Advocates' Welfare Fund Act, 1980 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') came into force, on his application he was admitted to the Fund and he continued as a member of the same till 31-3-1990 when he was removed from the rolls of the Bar Council on his request for retirement on account of poor health. Ext. P1 is the communication received by the petitioner from the Bar Council intimating the fact regarding removal of his name from the State Roll of Advocates with effect from 31-3-90. Along with his application for removal of his name from the rolls he had also applied on 12-1-1990 for payment of the amounts due to him from the Advocates' Welfare Fund constituted under the Act. The 2nd respondent, the Kerala Advocates Welfare Fund Trustee Committee, Ernakulam by order dated 8-7-1990, produced as Ext. P2, sanctioned an amount of Rs. 17,000/- less Rs. 100/- to the pe