02.05.2025 Ct. no.2 Sl. 16 b.r. WPA 8772 of 2025 Rabindra Nath Mondal & Ors. Vs. The Additional Central Provident Fund Commissioner & Ors. Mr. Saptarshi Banerjee Mr. Kuntal Banerjee …. For the petitioners. Mr. Shib Chandra Prasad Mr. Nikhil Kumar Gupta …. For the P.F. Authority. Mr. Saptarshi Banerjee, learned counsel appears for the petitioners. Mr. Nikhil Kumar Gupta, learned advocate led by Mr. Shib Chandra Prasad, learned counsel, appears for the Provident Fund Authorities. Subject of payment of the deficit Court Fees by all the rest of the petitioners who have not paid, this order shall be effected. The petitioners were the employees of Tyre Corporation of India. The Company has gone into liquidation in 2013. The principal amount on account of Provident Fund dues have already been paid to the petitioners in or around 2023-2024. The Provident Fund dues became payable to the petitioners on and from March 31, 2018, the date 2 when the trust had deposited the amount to the Provident Fund authority for disbursement. This fact would be evident from Pages-69 to 73 from the writ petition. The petitioners now claim interest at the statutory rate as prescribed under the Provident Fund Act on and from April 1, 2018 till the respective dates on which the petitioners were paid their respective Provident Fund dues. In view of the above, the petitioners shall serve a copy of complete set of this writ petition along with the copy of today’s order upon the respondentno.2. The respondent no.2 then upon verification of records shall disburse and pay the interest at the statutory rate on the amount of principal Provident Fund dues already paid to each of the petitioners, as directed above. The entire exercise including the payment to be made to the petitioners, shall be carried out and completed by the respondent no.2 positively within a period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order. It is incumbent upon the respondent no.2 to arrive at a correct calculation of interest and to apply the statutory rate and then disburse the amount to the petitioners. 3 Since affidavits are not called for, the allegations made in this writ petition are deemed not to have been admitted by the respondents. With the above observations, this writ petition, WPA 8772 of 2025 stands disposed of, without any order as to costs. Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be furnished expeditiously. (Aniruddha Roy, J.)