Mamata Hajra v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

ss 07.08.2025 WPA 15712 of 2024 Mamata Hajra Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Kalyan Kumar Panda ... ... for the petitioner Affidavit of service filed in Court today is kept with the record.

The father of the petitioner was a Head Teacher of a Primary School. The father of the petitioner retired on 31.10.1997 and died on 14.03.2009. The petitioner had completed all pension-related formalities. The pension payment order was issued on 24.05.2024. However, the concerned authorities delayed and released the arrear pension amount on 10.06.2024. The petitioner herein seeks interest to be paid on the arrear pension amount for the interim period of delay in receipt of the arrear pension amount. There is a considerable delay in filing of the writ petition, which the petitioner seeks to justify by stating that there is no statutory period of limitation and neither parties have suffered due to this delay. It is the submission of the petitioner that accordingly the petition should be allowed. The petitioner relies upon an order in W.P.No. 6649(W) of 2019 (Padma Nath Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors.) of the co-ordinate Bench in support of his submission.

In view of the above and after hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner, I direct the Director of Pension, Provident Fund and Group Insurance, Government of West Bengal as also the concerned Treasury Officer to pay interest to the writ petitioner 8% per annum on the arrear pension amount calculated from 01.04.2014 till the date of actual payment. Such payment is to be made within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order.

The writ petition is disposed of, however, no order as to costs.

Since no affidavit is called for, the allegations contained in the writ petition are deemed to have been denied.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be made available to the parties upon compliance with the requisite formalities.

(Rajarshi Bharadwaj, J.)