IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.13147 of 2006 JAWAHAR JHA Versus THE CHAIRMAN,B.S.E.B. & ORS ----------- 06/ 28.04.2010 Heard Mr. Kameshwar Prasad Gupta for the petitioner and Mr. Dharmeshwar Mishra, learned counsel representing the Electricity Board. The petitioner having superannuated on 30.04.2003 from the post of Skilled Khalasi filed the writ petition for payment of his post retiral benefits. It is admitted position that during the pendency of the proceedings the payment of the post retiral benefits of the petitioner had been paid to him and which has been brought on record by way of a counter affidavit filed in the proceedings. Three components of the retiral benefits were yet to be paid i.e. 15 per cent of gratuity, 10 per cent of pension and arrears of pension. A supplementary counter affidavit has been filed today in which it is stated that the balance 15 percent gratuity had since been paid to the petitioner on 03.04.2010. The hundred per cent pension has been sanctioned and full pension of Rs. 7,615/- for the month of February, 2010 has been paid to the petitioner vide cheque no. 08148 dated 03.04.2010 and that payment of arrears of pension was under process. It was thus submitted that the grievance of the petitioner stands redressed. 2 Mr. Gupta, learned counsel representing the petitioner, submitted that the petitioner was entitled for payment of statutory interest on the belated payments. Mr. Mishra, reverting to the claim of the petitioner submitted that the necessary pension papers/application forms etc. was deposited by the petitioner only on 15.02.2010 and that also at the instance of the officers of the Board who have obtained the papers from the residence of the petitioner. It is thus submitted that no claim for interest was admissible. Having regard to the submissions aforesaid and the pleadings available on the materials on record, the writ petition is disposed of with the direction to the concerned authority of the Board to make payment of the arrears of pension amount to the petitioner within two weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. As according to the stipulation of the respondent- Board the pension papers were obtained from the petitioner only on 15.02.2010, hence, in my opinion, no claim for interest is made out. S.Sb/- (Jyoti Saran, J.)