HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - A No. - 14926 of 2025 Court No. - 5 HON'BLE SAURABH SHYAM SHAMSHERY, J. 1. Heard Sri Mithilesh Kumar Gupta, learned counsel for petitioners, Sri Sudarshan Singh, Advocate for Respondent-5 and Sri Dinesh Kumar Rai, learned counsel for Respondents-1 to 4. 2. The petitioners are fence sitter. They have approached this Court after the law was crystalized so far as entitlement to the benefit of leave encashment and interest thereupon for delay in payment and undisputedly, petitioners (3 in number) have retired in between 2018 to 2023. 3. Learned counsel for petitioners refers some judgments passed by a Co- ordinate Bench of this Court that even at later stage, relief was granted so much as that matter was remitted to concerned respondent to decide in the light of judgments passed by the Supreme Court in Special Leave to Appeal (c) No.7939 of 2024 (I.T.I. Ltd. and another Vs. Ashok Kumar Shukla and another) as well as this Court in (Rama Kant Srivastava Vs. Indian Telephone Industries Limited and 2 others) Writ-A No. 31385 of 2016 in regard to payment of interest. 4. Learned counsel for respondents submits that leave encashment have already been paid to petitioners way back in the year 2019 and only issue left is of interest on delayed payment and for that they have approached this Court after six years. Versus Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Anju Pandey, Ayush Kumar Gupta, Mithilesh Kumar Gupta Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.S.G.I., Dinesh Kumar Rai, Sudarshan Singh Mohd Isa Khan And 2 Others .....Petitioner(s) Indian Telephone Industries Limited And 4 Others .....Respondent(s) 5. I have considered the above submission and perused the record. The petitioners were paid leave encashment on basis of judgment passed by this Court. It appears that issue of interest was not earlier raise and now it is raised on a ground that in some cases, interest was paid. 6. The Court takes reference of Rajesh Kumar Patel Vs. Indian Telephone Industries and others, 2024:AHC:197559, wherein after considering the judgments passed by Supreme Court an order was passed to pay interest even at belated stage. 7. In the aforesaid circumstances, this writ petition is disposed of with an observation/direction that in case, petitioners approach concerned respondent so far as issue of payment of interest is concerned, the concerned respondent will take note of judgment referred above and will pass a reasoned order. October 6, 2025 AK WRIA No. 14926 of 2025 2 (Saurabh Shyam Shamshery,J.) Digitally signed by :- AWADESH KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad