Archana Das v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

04.08.2023 jb.

jdt

IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA

Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri Constitutional Writ Jurisdiction WPA No. 1695 of 2023 Archana Das Vs.

State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Deborshi Dhar ...for the Petitioner Mr. Hirak Barman Momenur Rahaman ...for the State Affidavit of service filed in court today is kept with the record.

The husband of the petitioner was an Assistant Teacher of a high school who died in harness on 8th October, 2018. The petitioner completed all his pension related formalities. The Pension Payment Order was issued on 6th September, 2022. However, the concerned authorities released gratuity and arrear pension amount on 14th September, 2022. The petitioner herein seeks interest to be paid on the gratuity and arrear pension amount for the interim period of delay in receipt of the said gratuity amount. Upon consideration of the submission made on behalf of the parties and material on record, the Director of Pension, Provident Fund and Group Insurance, Government of West Bengal and The

Treasury Officer, Tufanganj are directed to pay interest to the petitioner @ 8% per annum on the gratuity and arrear pension amount calculated from 9th October, 2018 till the date of actual payment of the amount. Such payment be made within one month from the date of communication of this order. With these observations, the writ petition is disposed of.

Since, no affidavit-in-opposition has been called for, the allegations made in the writ petition are deemed to have not been admitted by the respondents.

There will be no order as to costs.

Urgent certified website copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished to the parties upon compliance of necessary formalities.

(Suvra Ghosh,J)