Court No. 10 (1629) 23.07.2026 (JPD 36) (S. Banerjee) Calcutta High Court In the Circuit Bench at Jalpaiguri Appellate Side WPA 1207 of 2026 Ratna Tambly Vs. State of West Bengal & Ors. Mr. Debajit Kundu … for the petitioner Mr. Ashoke Kumar Singhi Ms. Tamanna Kar … for the State Affidavit of service filed in Court today is taken on record. Ms. Bose, learned advocate appears on behalf of the State. The husband of the petitioner was a Lower Division Assistant and retired from service on superannuation on 31.07.2014 and died on 21.12.2015. The pension payment order was issued on 28.11.2025 in pursuance whereof she received the gratuity and arrear pension on 08.06.2026. In the instant writ petition the prayer of the petitioner is a writ of Mandamus be issued commanding the respondents to pay interest on the 2 said amount of gratuity and arrear family pension for delayed payment. Learned advocate for the State respondents does not oppose the prayer of the petitioner. It is now well settled that the petitioner is entitled to the interest, as prayed for. In view thereof, this writ petition is disposed of by directing the concerned Treasury Officer, Dinhata being the respondent no. 4 to pay interest to the petitioner @ 8% per annum on the gratuity and arrear family pension from the date of retirement of the petitioner till the date of such payment. The payment as aforesaid shall be made within the period of eight weeks from the date of communication of this order; in default, the said arrear amount shall fetch an additional interest of 2% per annum. Since no affidavits have been called for, the allegations contained in the writ petition shall be deemed not have been admitted by the respondents. There shall be no order as to costs. There shall be however, no order as to costs. 3 Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be made available to the parties upon compliance with the requisite formalities. (Hiranmay Bhattacharyya, J.)