Lakhan Goudo And ANR. v. Coal India Limited And ORS.

11.04.2025 Court No.23 DL/Item No.-5 [Milan, A.R. (Ct.)]

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Civil Appellate Jurisdiction Appellate Side RVW 70 of 2025 With CAN 1 of 2025 In WPA 19688 of 2024 Eastern Coal Field Limited & Ors.

versus Sri Lakhan Goudo & Ors.

Mr. Krishnendu Bhattacharya, Mr. Rounak Majumdar ....for the review applicants/Petitioners Mr. Prolay Bhattacharya, Ms. Tanusree Ghosh, Mr. Koushik Roy ...... for the respondents This is a review application predominantly for correction of certain dates and not for review of the order as a whole, although Eastern Coalfields Limited (in short, "ECL") tries to object to a finding in the order under review. It will appear from the first page of the order dated 27th January, 2025 under review that the employee concerned being the husband of the petitioner no.2 and the father of petitioner no.1 died-in-harness on 16th April, 2011, but in page three of the said order, the said date has gone down as 14th May, 2011 instead of 16th April, 2011.

In the first page of the said order, it has also been recorded that compassionate appointment was sought for on 27th December, 2011. The order in the first page

also refers that compassionate appointment has been granted by an order dated 27th January, 2025, it has been also held in the said order that Monthly Monetary Cash Compensation (in short, "MMCC") has become due and payable to the petitioner no.2 being the widow of the deceased employee from the date of the death of her husband, which is 16th April, 2011 and not 14th May, 2011 as wrongly recorded in the said order.

In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, it is clarified that the petitioner no.2 shall get the MMCC from 16th April, 2011 at the prevalent rate and shall continue to get the same at the rates prevalent from time to time upto 26th January, 2025.

The order is further clarified that the interest has to be from 16th April, 2011 till 26th January, 2025 at the prevalent rate with accrued interest thereon. The rate of interest shall also be 6% per annum for the defaulted period that is between 16th April, 2011 and 26th January, 2025.

With this clarification, the review application being RVW 70 of 2025 is accordingly disposed of. Since the main review application is disposed of, the connected application being CAN 1 of 2025 also stands disposed of.

(Arindam Mukherjee, J.)