2014 (8) TMI 1202

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....cided on 14-3-2011 P&H in affirming the judgment of the learned Single Judge passed in D.D Tewari v. Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. CWP No. 1048 of 2010, decided on 25-8-2010 P&H wherein he was not awarded interest for the delayed payment of pension and gratuity amount, for which he was legally entitled to. Therefore, the appellant approached this Court for grant of interest on the delayed payment on the retiral benefits of pension and gratuity payable to him by the respondents. 2. The appellant was appointed to the post of Line Superintendent on 30-8-1968 with the Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam Ltd. In the year 1990, he was promoted to the post of Junior Engineer I. During his service, the appellant remained in charge of number o....

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.... earlier view holding that: (SCC pp. 429-30, para 1) "1. [the] pension and gratuity are no longer any bounty to be distributed by the Government to its employees on their retirement but have become, under the decisions of this Court, valuable rights and property in their hands and any culpable delay in settlement and disbursement thereof must be visited with the penalty of payment of interest at the current market rate till actual payment [to the employees]." 5. The said legal principle laid down by this Court still holds good insofar as awarding the interest on the delayed payments to the appellant is concerned. This aspect of the matter was adverted to in the judgment of the learned Single Judge without assigning any reason for not awa....