Court No. - 35
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 18364 of 2021 Petitioner :- Bachche Lal Patel Respondent :- Managing Director, U.P. Jal Nigam(Rural) And 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Ashutosh Kumar Rai Counsel for Respondent :- Pranjal Mehrotra
Hon'ble Dr. Yogendra Kumar Srivastava,J.
Heard Sri Ashutosh Kumar Rai, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Pranjal Mehrotra appearing for the respondents.
The petitioner claims to have retired from service on 30.06.2021 while working as Divisional Accountant in the U.P. Jal Nigam. The grievance of the petitioner is that his post retiral benefits have not yet been paid.
It is a trite law that the post retiral benefits of an employee should be paid without any delay and if there is any laxity in the payment of post retiral benefits of any employee, he/she shall be entitled for the interest on the delayed payment. Reference may be made to the judgements of the Supreme Court in State of Kerala and others v. M. Padmanabhan Nair, AIR 1985 SC 356, and Vijay L. Mehrotra v. State of U.P. and others, (2001) 9 SCC 687.
Sri Pranjal Mehrotra, learned counsel for the respondents does not dispute the aforesaid legal proposition and fairly states that the claims/representation of the petitioner with regard to his post retiral dues would be accorded consideration.
Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case, the ends of justice would be met by issuing a direction to the competent/respondent authorities to ensure payment of the admissible retiral dues, in case yet not paid, within a period of three months from today.
The writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of. Order Date :- 20.12.2021 Imroz (Dr. Y. K. Srivastava, J.)