IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.11106 of 2005 RAM ASREY PRASAD SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS ----------- 03/ 28.04.2010 Mr. Ramakant Sharma for the petitioner, Mr. Shailendra Kumar Jha, assisting counsel to S.C. 9 for the State and Mr. Sanjay Kumar for the Accountant General are present. The petitioner superannuated from the post of Assistant Teacher from Kanhaiya High School, Nawada with effect from 30.06.2000. Learned counsel for the petitioner admits to payment of the post retiral benefits of the petitioner but submits that the same has been made belatedly and thus entitles him to claim interest in terms of the Circular of the State Government in this context. Having regard to the submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioner, the writ petition is disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to raise his claim for payment of interest on pension and gratuity in terms of the Circular bearing Memo No. PC-2-1- 46/79/3155 dated 7.11.1981 prescribing 5 per cent interest on belated payment of pension and gratuity and which shall be considered by the authority concerned and disposed of in accordance with law. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, J.)