Smt. Sunita Shukla v. State of U.P. Ans 4 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Writ petition over failure of the Employees Compensation Commissioner's office to deposit half of a compensation award in an interest-bearing account as directed by an earlier court order, depriving the petitioner of interest. Court found respondents negligent and asked respondent no.2 to file a fresh affidavit explaining steps taken; matter deferred to July 2025.
What the court decided
Court No. - 33
Case :- WRIT - C No. - 501 of 2025
Petitioner :- Smt. Sunita Shukla Respondent :- State Of U.P. Ans 4 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Devid Kumar Singh,Prateek Rai Counsel for Respondent :- Saurabh Srivastava, Sunil Kumar Misra,C.S.C.
Hon'ble Prakash Padia,J.
- This Court on 21.04.2025 passed the following order:-
"1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel appearing on behalf of State-respondent nos. 1 and 2, Sri S.K. Mishra, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no. 3, Sri Saurabh Srivastava, learned counsel appearing on behalf of respondent no. 5.
2. It is argued by the counsel for the petitioner that due to mistake committed by the respondent no. 2, the part of the order passed by this Court in FAFO No. 2423 of 2013 dated 09.09.2013 was not complied with. By which a direction was given to him to invest the remaining half of the amount in interest bearing account in a Nationalized Bank initially for a period of one year, renewable for further similar periods.
3. It is argued by the counsel for the respondent no. 5 that as per the procedure prescribed in law, the entire amount as per the award dated 18.06.2013 was deposited by them well within time but for the reasons best known to the then respondent no. 2, the 50% of the aforesaid amount as per the directions dated 09.09.2013 passed by this Court was not invested in the interest bearing account. It is further stated in the writ petition that after the aforesaid FAFO was dismissed on merits, an application was submitted by the petitioner on 09.12.2023 before the respondent no. 2 to release the amount deposited in the Bank as per the order dated 09.09.2013. The order dated 09.09.2013 is quoted below:-
Issues for consideration
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the respondent no.2 complied with the order to invest half the deposited compensation amount in an interest-bearing account, and how the petitioner is to be paid the accrued interest?
Parties & counsel
- petitioner
Smt. Sunita Shukla
- respondent
State of U.P.
- respondent
Ans 4
- respondent
Others
Coram
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
- Court
- Allahabad HC
- Decided on
- · February
- Registered
- Case no.
- WRIC/501/2025
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