JUDGMENT

This writ petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction on the respondents to release the entitled GPF amount in favour of her, who is also the nominee of the deceased Leishangthem Chaoba Singh.

2. The case of the petitioner is that her son Leishangthem Chaoba Singh was working as Engineer Assistant in the State Council of Educational Research and Training (SCERT) and he had nominated the petitioner as nominee in his GPF account and such record had never been changed before marriage or after the marriage. The petitioner’s son died on 25.9.2006 leaving behind the petitioner, his two wives and daughter. After the death of her son, the petitioner requested the authorities to release the GPF amount to her and in this regard, she had also submitted applications dated 5.7.2007, 5.10.2017 and finally on 16.11.2017 to the provident fund authorities. However, the said applications remain unattended and the authorities had failed to release the balance GPF amount to the petitioner. Hence, the petitioner has filed the present writ petition.

3. Respondents 3 and 4 have filed affidavit-in-opposition stating that respondents 3 and 4 only implements the decisions taken by th