responsibility by paying for the paddy to the petitioners. Thus, for the period till the time the truck challans were not submitted, the Corporation cannot be held liable for payment of any interest. However, since even after submission of the truck challan, there has been delay of over a year to almost two years with regard to the petitioners in making payment for the admitted paddy supplied by them, the Court deems it to be a fit case where it should award interest. As the Court has been persuaded to award interest for the reason that the petitioners in turn has been saddled with the same by the Bank for non-payment of the loan by way of cash credit which account also carries interest, in the considered opinion of the Court, for the ends of justice and equity, it is held that the petitioners would be entitled to the same rate of interest which the Bank is charging from them i.e., @ 11% simple interest per annum. However, the interest payable to the petitioners would not be from the day they had supplied the paddy to the Corporation but from the date they had discharged their responsibility of submitting the truck challan . Thus, from the dates as has been stated in the affidavit filed on behalf of the Corporation, especially in the aforesaid paragraphs, the petitioners would be entitled to payment of interest @ of 11% simple interest per annum from the date of submission of such truck challan till the date of actual
