HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY C.M.A.No.924 of 2008 Date: 21-03-2011 Between: Khaja Vali, S/o.Late Madar Sab and another …Appellants. And: The Union of India, rep. by the General Manager …Respondent. HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY C.M.A.No.924 of 2008 JUDGMENT: 1. This appeal is directed against order of interest awarded over amount of compensation of Rs.4,00,000/- awarded in favour of the appellants/applicants by order dated 28.11.2005 in O.A.A.No.101 of 2001 on the file of Railway Claims Tribunal, Secunderabad bench, Secunderabad.. 2. The appellants are the applicants and the respondent is the respondent in the said application. For convenience sake, I refer the parties as arrayed in the application. 3. In fact, the compensation of Rs.4.00 lakhs was awarded in favour of the applicants in the application following death of one Hayathunnisa Begum, wife of the first of them and mother of the second of them by the tribunal with a direction to the respondent to deposit the amount within 60 days from the date of order, failing which, to pay interest at the rate of 6% per annum after the expiry of that period till the date of realization. 4. In this appeal, it is the claim of the applicants that the interest awarded is very low and the Tribunal should have awarded interest @ 18% per annum or at any reasonable interest from the date of petition till the date of realization of amounts and the Tribunal failed to appreciate the matter properly. 5. Therefore, it has to be mainly examined whether the applicants are entitled to the interest on the said amount as prayed for? 6. I n TAHAZATHE PURAYIL SARABI AND OTHERS v. UNION OF INDIA[1] the Hon’ble Supreme Court granted interest on amount awarded at 6% per annum from date of filing impugned application till date of decree and at 9% per annum from the date of decree till realization of the amount awarded therein, that verdict is applicable in this case also. Accordingly, the applicants are entitled for interest. 7. In the result, the appeal is allowed in part granting interest at 6% per annum from the date of application till the date of decree and at 9% per annum from the date of decree till realization on the said amount of Rs.4.00 lakhs. No order as to costs. ________________________________ Justice G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY Date: 21-03-2011. Rns HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE G.KRISHNA MOHAN REDDY C.M.A.No.435 OF 2006 Dated 8-2-2011 [1] 2009(2) ACJ 2444