Supriya Mandal v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

03.11.2022 Item No.123 Court No.18 SK W.P.A. 19169 of 2022 Supriya Mandal -Vs- The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mrs. Sabita Khutia (Bhunya) ......for the petitioner.

Affidavit-of-service filed by the learned advocate for the petitioner be kept with the record.

In spite of service none appears on behalf of the State-respondents.

The husband of the petitioner was an approved Assistant Teacher of a secondary school and died-in-harness on November 02, 2019.

The Pension Payment Order of the employee concerned was issued on July 23, 2020 in pursuance whereof the petitioner received the gratuity and the arrear family Pension on August 14, 2020.

In the instant writ petition the prayer of the petitioner is a writ of mandamus be issued commanding the respondents to pay interest on the said amount of gratuity and the arrear family pension for the delayed payment.

It is now well settled that the petitioner is entitled to the interest, as prayed for.

The respondents, the concerned Treasury Officer in particular are, therefore, directed to pay interest @ 8% per annum on the gratuity and the arrear amount of family pension from the date of death of the husband of the petitioner till the date of such payment.

The payment as aforesaid shall be made within the period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order, in default the said arrear amount shall fetch an additional interest of 2% per annum.

W.P.A. 19169 of 2022 stands disposed of, with the above directions. There shall be no order as to costs.

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

(Biswajit Basu, J.)