Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Delayed payment Interest for reasonableness of the time taken in processing application Commuted Value of Pension (CVP) Service Law |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Service Law:Commuted Value of Pension (CVP) – Delayed payment –Interest for – Entitlement to the employee who was paid provisional pension during pendency of vigilance/disciplinary case – Vigilance clearance before the date of retirement – Application for CVP made after over three years from the date of retirement – Claim for interest on the CVP from the date of retirement – Denied by Department/employer – Administrative Tribunal as well as High Court directed grant of interest – On appeal, held: A claim for interest with regard to CVP may lie when an application has been made in time u/r. 13(1) of Commutation Rules and payment is delayed – Question as to payment of interest would arise based on the date of application and the reasonableness of the time taken in processing it and the arbitrariness in a particular case in delaying the matter – The employee was precluded from applying u/r. 13(1)as he was not getting superannuation pension – He was getting a provisional pension – He was not precluded from making application u/r. 13(3) – In view of acceptance of provisional pension and failure to make application u/r. 13(3), the employee could not have been granted interest on CVP from the date of retirement –Central Civil Services (Commutation of Pension) Rules, 1981 –rr. 4, 12, 13(1) and (3) – Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules,1972 – rr. 9 and 69. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice K.M. Joseph |
Neutral Citation | 2019 INSC 337 |
Petitioner | Chief General Manager Gujarat Telecom Circle, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. & Ors. |
Respondent | Manilal Ambalal Patel & Anr. |
SCR | [2019] 4 S.C.R. 1034 |
Judgement Date | 2019-03-08 |
Case Number | 1681 |
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