Civil Writ Petition No.13514 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.13514 of 2009 Decided on : 07-10-2009 Balwinder Kaur .... Petitioner VERSUS State of Punjab & others .... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SATISH KUMAR MITTAL. Present:- Mr. Rahul Chhatwal, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. J.S. Puri, Addl. A.G., Punjab, for the respondents. SATISH KUMAR MITTAL, J (Oral). The petitioner is a widow of the deceased employee, who was unfortunately died on 29.5.2006. It is the case of the petitioner that after the death of her husband, she was entitled for the family pension, but the same was not paid to her, as such, she has filed the instant petition. After issuing notice of motion, learned counsel for the respondents has informed the Court that the family pension has been released to the petitioner. The arrears of the family pension to the tune of Rs.1,31,324/-, have also been paid to her on 10.9.2009. Learned counsel states that the family pension could not be paid to the petitioner earlier as some informations with Civil Writ Petition No.13514 of 2009 -2- regard to service of the deceased employee were not received from the concerned departments. Keeping in view the fact that the family pension was not released to the wife of the deceased employee for three years and she has been compelled to file the present writ petition for the release of the same, I deem it appropriate to grant the petitioner interest @ 6% on the delayed payment of retiral dues w.e.f. June, 2006. The respondents are directed to pay the amount of interest to the petitioner within a period of three months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order. 7th October, 2009. (SATISH KUMAR MITTAL) Monika JUDGE