28.04.2026 293 Ct.No.24 Susanta WPA 20047 of 2025 Goutam Bandyopadhyay Vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Krishna Pada Santra, …for the Petitioner. Mr. Tapas Kumar Roy, …for the State. 1. Let affidavit-of-service, as filed in Court, be kept on record. 2. The petitioner had served as the Headmaster of a secondary school and retired from his said service upon superannuation on December 31, 2018. 3. The first pension payment order of the petitioner was issued on December 12, 2018. 4. Under the ROPA Rules, 2019, there was revision of the pension, gratuity and computation of pension of the pensioners vide Memorandum of the Government of West Bengal bearing no. 53/ES/P/P&B/10M-99/2019 dated February 14, 2020 and the revised pension payment order of the petitioner under ROPA, 2019 was issued on October 21, 2020, in terms thereof, the petitioner received the arrear pension and gratuity on November 04, 2020. 5. The petitioner in the instant writ petition is claiming that he is entitled to interest for the delayed payment of the said gratuity and arrear pension and is praying issuance of writ of 2 mandamus commanding the Director of Pension, Provident Fund and Group Insurance and the concerned Treasury Officer, the respondents herein, to pay such interest. 6. Learned Advocate appearing for the State- respondents does not oppose the prayer of the petitioner. 7. It is now well settled that the petitioner is entitled to the interest, as prayed for. 8. The aforementioned respondents are, therefore, directed to pay interest on the revised gratuity and arrear pension @ 8% per annum from the date of notification of the aforesaid Government order i.e. February 14, 2020 till the date of payment of revised gratuity and arrear pension in terms of the said revised pension payment order. 9. The payment, as aforestated, shall be made within a period of twelve weeks from the date of communication of this order, in default, the said arrears amount shall fetch an additional interest of 2% per annum. 10. With the aforestated directions, the writ petition is, thus, disposed of. 11. There shall, however, be no order as to costs. 12. Urgent photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be supplied to the parties subject to compliance with all requisite formalities. (Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)