Maya Baskey And ANR. v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

21.04.2026 rc/ct.no.15 Item No.06 WPA No. 9177 of 2026 Maya Baskey & Anr.

Versus

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Anirban Chakraborty ..for the petitioner Sk. Md. Masud ...for the State Affidavit of service filed by the petitioner is taken on record.

Heard learned counsels for the parties.

The 1st petitioner is the widow and the 2nd petitioner is the son/heir of the employee Gopal Chandra Baskey who was appointed as Gram Panchayat Karmee of Barjarajpur Gram Panchayat. The husband of the 1st petitioner died in harness on August 22, 2018 leaving his wife, being the 1st petitioner herein and son, being the 2nd petitioner herein. Despite completing all pension related formalities within due time the pension payment order was issued by the concerned authority on December 12, 2019. Subsequently there was a revision of the pension and gratuity amount payable to the petitioner under the ROPA Rules, 2019 and revised pension payment order was issued on September 12, 2022 . The revised gratuity amount was disbursed in favour of the petitioner on October 06, 2022. The petitioner claims interest on

delayed payment of the revised gratuity and arrear pension amount.

Upon consideration of the submission made on behalf of the parties and material on record, the Director of Pension, Provident Fund and Group Insurance, Government of West Bengal and the Treasury Officer, Khatra, being the 4th and 5th respondents herein, are directed to pay interest to the petitioner @8% per annum on the revised gratuity and arrear pension amount calculated from January 01, 2020 till the date of actual payment of the amount. Such payment be made within two months from the date of communication of this order. With the above observations and directions this writ petition is disposed of.

There shall, however, be no order as to costs. Since no affidavit is invited, the allegations contained in the writ petition are deemed not to have been admitted.

Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties upon compliance with all requisite formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh,J)