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2019 DIGILAW 512 (JHR)

Chhaya Rani Mohanty v. State of Jharkhand

2019-02-21

ANANDA SEN

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JUDGMENT : 1. In this writ application, petitioner has confined her prayer. She is praying only for interest on the delayed payment of provident fund amount. 2. Counsel for the petitioner submits that all the retiral benefits have been paid to the petitioner but the provident fund amount of her husband was paid only after filing of this writ application. She submits that husband of the petitioner died on 17.12.1988 whereas provident fund amount was paid to her on 3.1.2018. 3. Counsel for the respondents-State submits that petitioner applied for the amount of provident fund only on 01.01.2018, thus the same has been paid to her with statutory interest upto six months after date of death, not for the entire belated period. 4. An amount of provident fund has to be paid on the death or on superannuation of an employee. Respondent has taken 30 years to pay the said amount. In this case vide order dated 27.4.2018 respondents were directed to calculate the interest also. Today, counsel for the respondent submits that interest component comes to Rs. 2,71,881/-. 5. Considering the fact that admittedly amount of provident fund has been paid to the petitioner after thirty years thus she is definitely entitled to get the interest so calculated by the respondents. The respondent should immediately transmit the amount of interest to the petitioner without any delay preferably within a period of three weeks from the receipt/production of this order. 6. With the aforesaid direction and observation, this writ application stands disposed of. I.A. No.9752 of 2017 7. In view of the order passed in the main writ application today, this interlocutory application for impleading new respondents has become in fructuous. 8. Accordingly, the interlocutory application stand dismissed as in fructuous.