Sajal Kumar Banerjee v. Union Of India And ORS.

20-01-2021 ct no. 13 Sl.54 sp WPA 11680 of 2020 Sajal Kumar Banerjee -VersusUnion of India & Ors.

Mr. Subir Sanyal, Mr. Sutirtha Das .... for the petitioner Mr. Anjan Sengupta ...for the respondent nos. 1 & 2 Mr. Soumendranath Gangopadhyay ....for the Insurance Company This Court appreciates the submissions made on behalf of the Insurance Company. An opportunity is sought to review and revisit the order dated August 26, 2020 issued by email to the petitioner by Chief Manager, HRM Department, Head Office, Chennai. The said order is a subject matter of challenge in the instant writ petition.

The matter has a long history and the petitioner has traveled to this Court for third time now. Departmental proceedings, which culminated in the dismissal order against the petitioner were challenged before this Court and set aside by a Single Bench and the order was upheld by the Division Bench.

The petitioner was not paid his dues for the entire period from 2004 till April 2014, which was allowed once again by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court and a sum of about Rs. 74 lakhs and odd has been paid to the petitioner. The petitioner now claims Stagnation Pay, conveyance/transport, telephone and entertainment, allowances that have been rejected also by the impugned order. The petitioner also prays for interest on delayed payment of his employment dues.

The insurance company shall, within a period of 45 days from date, pass a suitable order after revisiting the order dated August 26, 2020 and communicate the same to the petitioner within 7 days thereof.

With the aforesaid directions, the instant writ petition is disposed of.

There shall, however, be no order as to costs.

Urgent photostat certified copy of this judgment, if applied for, be given to the parties upon compliance of all formalities.

(Rajasekhar Mantha, J.)