1. The petitioner has filed this writ petition in terms of Article 226 of the Constitution of India read with Section 103 of Jammu & Kashmir State Constitution, for commanding the respondents to settle the pension case of the petitioner at the rate of 18% interest and to award compensation in favour of the petitioner on the grounds taken in the writ petition, which can be aptly and precisely summarized as under: -

The petitioner, who was the employee of Health Department, attained the age of superannuating in terms of annexure-P2. The respondents had not settled the pension case of the petitioner in time which constrained the petitioner to file the present petition. The petitioner has prayed for grant of following reliefs:-

"(a) Writ of mandamus, commanding the respondents to take effective and proper steps and to settle the pension case of the petitioner and to release all pensioner benefits, gratuity and other Service benefits to which the petitioner is otherwise entitled to under rules, and further,

(b) by issuance of an appropriate writ, all service benefits be released retrospectively with interest at 18% applicable for all nationalize banks and further,

(c) by issuance of ap

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