ORAL JUDGMENT

Date : 15-04-2024 Heard Mr. Shashi Bhushan Singh, learned counsel for the petitioners, Mr. Madhaw Prasad Yadaw, learned counsel for the respondents and Md. Faiz Ahmed, learned counsel for the Magadh University.

2. The petitioners, three in number, who retired on

30.06.2015, 30.06.2017 and 30.06.2017 respectively, have filed this writ petition, seeking a direction to the respondent- authorities to make payment of all the retiral dues including arrears of pension by adding one increment in last basic pay salary of the petitioners. The petitioners have also prayed for a direction to make payment of retiral dues such as gratuity, earned leave and arrears of pension in the light of Memo No. 592 dated 06.03.2019, issued by the Special Secretary, Education Department, Govt. of Bihar to the petitioner Nos. 2 and 3 as they have retired on 30.06.2017 and arrears of pension to the petitioner No. 1 from due date.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners have submitted that though the prayer of petitioners are worded in the manner indicated hereinabove; the basic prayer of the petitioner Nos. 1, 2 and 3 is for payment of pension by adding one increment in the last basic salary of the p