Allahabad High Court Orders Rs. 50K in Compensation for a 28-Year GPF Payment Delay, Declaring “This Court is Shocked!”

A senior citizen’s General Provident Fund (GPF) was 28 years late, and the Allahabad High Court has ruled that he be paid Rs 50,000 for the delay.

In the judgement dated July 13, the bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh, who has since been moved to the Kerala High Court, observed that it was astonishing that the petitioner had to wait 28 years for a little sum of Rs 5,900 and another nine years for the remaining payment.

“This court is outraged by the way the department treated the petitioner. The fact that the petitioner had to wait 28 long years for a meager sum of Rs 5,900 and that the remaining amount was only paid to him in the year 2021, or 38 years later, and that too without any interest on the delayed payment of GPF, shocked the court, it stated.

The petitioner was treated with “gross injustice” by the respondent authorities’ disregard, and as a result, the court awarded compensation in the form of lump-sum interest on the past-due GPF amount.

The petitioner, Naresh Singh, was forced into retirement in 1983. He then began requesting payment of the Rs 7,340 that was owed to him from his GPF.

On March 16, 2012, after waiting for around 28 years, he received Rs 5,900 of his outstanding debt. There was still $1,440 outstanding.

Then, in 2018, he filed a petition with the high court asking for redress.

On August 21, 2021, he received the remaining sum while the case was still being heard by the supreme court. The same was, however, paid in whole and without interest.

As a result, the high court left the case open for additional analysis.

Last week, the petitioner finally obtained justice in the form of restitution for his suffering.

The Uttar Pradesh Revenue Department was ordered by the HC to pay the petitioner’s request within four weeks of the order’s date.