UMA RAHA v. CALCUTTA STATE TRANSPORT CORPORATION AND ORS.
WPA/20168/2026 · 2026-08-19
Reetobroto Kumar Mitra
body2026
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19.08. 2026
Ct. No. 18
Ab
IN THE HIGH COURT AT CALCUTTA CONSTITUTIONAL WRIT JURISDICTION APPELLATE SIDE. WPA 20168 of 2026
Uma Raha Vs. The Calcutta State Transport Corporation and others. ---------------
Mr. Dilip Kumar Chatterjee, Mr. Durga Bhusan Mukherjee. … for the petitioner. Mr. Soumyajit Ghosh. … for the CSTC. Ms. Manika Roy, Mr. Atanu Sur. … for the EPFO. 1. Affidavit-of-service filed in Court today is taken on record. 2. The petitioner claims pension on higher wages in accordance with the Employees’ Pension Scheme, 1995 (EPS), as amended. The amount of money that was required to be transmitted by the CSTC was communicated to it by the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation vide demand letter dated August 9,
2024. Till September 30, 2024, the amount due to be deposited along with the interest was calculated as Rs.9,23,411/-. The petitioner alleges that 90% of her CPF dues have been still lying unpaid at her credit in her CPF account but the CSTC has not transmitted the due amount of contribution to the EPFO in spite of the demand letter. 2
3. The petitioner submits that she is not aware of the updated amount required to be transmitted by the CSTC to the EPFO. 4. Accordingly, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation is directed to make the necessary calculation of the amount required to be transmitted by the CSTC so that the petitioner can receive higher pension under EPS. 5. I direct the Regional Provident Fund Commissioner, Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation, Barrackpore, the respondent no. 7 herein, to make the necessary updated calculation of the amount due till end of September, 2026 and inform the CSTC which shall transmit the same from the petitioner’s account to the EPFO within 30th November 2026 to enable the petitioner to get higher pension under EPS.. 6. Such calculation shall be intimated to the CSTC and the petitioner at the earliest but positively within 30th September 2026. The CSTC shall make payment of the balance amount of CPF to the petitioner with 6% interest per annum from the next date of retirement till the date of actual payment. 7. On transfer of the amount of such calculation, the EPFO authority shall take steps for disbursing higher pension to the petitioner in accordance with EPS from the month of October, 2026. 3
8. With the afore-stated directions, WPA 20168 of 2026 is disposed of. 9.
There shall be no order as to costs. 10. Urgent Photostat certified copy of this order, if applied for, be given to the parties on usual undertaking. (Reetobroto Kumar Mitra, J.)