THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS APPEAL No.1050 of 2005 ORDER: The appellants herein presented a claim before the Secunderabad Bench of Railway Claims Tribunal, for compensation. The claim petition was allowed. The Tribunal, however, stipulated 60 days time for deposit of the amount of compensation and awarded interest from expiry of that period. The appellants feel aggrieved by the denial of interest, on the compensation, from the date of presentation of the claim petition. There is no necessity of going into all the details. The issue that arises for consideration in this appeal is: “Whether the appellants are entitled for interest on the compensation awarded by the Tribunal, in the absence of any express provision made under the Railway Claims Tribunal Act and the Rules made thereunder, for the purpose of awarding interest?” The principles of law on the aforesaid issue are no more res integra. It is represented before this Court that, recently, in its judgment in Thazhathe Purayil Sarabi v. Union of India[1], the Supreme Court has categorically held that the amount awarded as compensation by the Railway Claims Tribunal shall carry interest at the rate of 6% per annum from the date of presentation of the claim petition up to passing of the award and at the rate of 9% p.a. from the date of award till the date of realisation. Following the said judgment, this Court disposed of C.M.A.No.1721 of 2004 and batch by order dated 21.04.2010 in terms of the said judgment, and thereafter, in Review petitions filed in the respective C.M.As., this Court directed that the amount deposited by the South Central Railway towards interest in compliance with the judgments rendered by this Court in the respective C.M.As. shall not be permitted to be withdrawn for a period of three months from the date of the order. In view of the above and having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, this civil miscellaneous appeal is allowed in part, directing that the amount awarded as compensation by the Tribunal in favour of the appellants shall carry interest at 6% per annum from the date of presentation of the claim petition till the date of award and thereafter at 9% per annum till the date of realization. However, it is directed that the appellants shall not be permitted to withdraw the interest awarded on the compensation for a period of three months from today. _____________ C.V.RAMULU,J 22.07.2010 v v [1] (2009) 7 SCC