Vishnu Dutta Upadhyay v. State Of West Bengal And ORS.

03.12.2024 Ct. No. 18 adeb W.P.A. 27960 of 2024 Bishnu Dutta Upadhyay Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

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

The petitioner is a retired Assistant Teacher, who superannuated on 31st July, 2016.

Due to superannuation of the petitioner, 1st Pension Payment Order was issued on 27th June, 2016 and as per the first Pension Payment Order disbursement of retiral dues including pension was made in favour of the petitioner. Subsequently, due to revision of pay as per ROPA 2019 revised Pension Payment Order was issued on 31st August, 2022. The petitioner claims interest on revised gratuity as per revised Pension Payment Order due to delayed payment.

State-respondents are represented by learned advocate.

Accordingly, the Director of Pension, Provident Fund and Group Insurance, West Bengal and the concerned Treasury Officer are directed to pay interest at the rate of 8% per annum to the petitioner on revised

gratuity as per revised Pension Payment Order from 14th February, 2020 till the date of actual disbursement of revised gratuity amount in favour of the petitioner, within a period of 8 (eight) weeks from the date of communication of this order.

Since no affidavit is called for, the allegations contained in the writ petition are deemed not to have been admitted.

With the above observation, the writ petition stands disposed of.

There shall be no order as to costs.

Urgent photostat certified copy of the order, if applied for, be given to the parties, upon usual undertakings.

(Saugata Bhattacharyya, J.)