IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE OF ANDHRA PRADESH AT HYDERABAD THE HONOURBALE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA W.P. No. 6115 OF 2006 Dated : March 28, 2006 Between: Munnavarulla Khadri Petitioner AND The Managing Director, Nizam Sugars Limited, Shakkar Bhavan, Basheer Bagh, Hyderabad and others Respondents THE HONOURBALE SRI JUSTICE N.V.RAMANA W.P. No. 6115 OF 2006 ORAL ORDER: Seeking a direction to the respondents to pay the withheld 10% of the V.R.S. amount with interest, in terms of the Writ Appeal No. 1142 of 2003, the petitioner filed this writ petition. It is the case of the petitioner that he joined in the first respondent Organization as Labour Officer on 4.1.1988 and promoted as Manager, in 1997 and in view of the privatization policy of the Government of Andhra Pradesh, the petitioner retired under voluntary retirement scheme and accordingly, the VRS benefits were settled, but the petitioner was paid only 90% of the same on 10.4.2003, withholding 10%, without assigning any order. When the writ petition has come up for hearing, the learned counsel for the petitioner submits that some of the similarly situated employees of the respondent Organisation have filed batch of writ petitions, which were allowed by a learned Single Judge of this court on 30.4.2003, aggrieved of which, the respondents herein preferred Writ Appeal No. 1142 of 2003 and Batch wherein a Division Bench of this court has directed the Nizam Sugars Limited to release the benefits accrued to the writ petitioners under V.R.S. Scheme on or before 31st March, 2005. It is was further observed that since there was delay in payment of the benefits, such payments shall be subject to payment of interest at 6% p.a. With this modification, the order of the learned Single Judge of this court was confirmed. Following the judgment of the Division Bench, a learned Single Judge of this court has disposed of W.P. No. 20959 of 2005 on 18.10.2005 directing the respondents therein to pay 10% of the V.R.S. amount withheld along with interest at 6% p.a. Following the same, the writ petition is disposed of directing the respondents to pay 10% of V.R.S. amounts along with interest at the rate of 6%, within two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. No order as to costs. N.V.RAMANA, J. March 28, 2006. MAS