RAMA SHANKAR PRASAD Vs. CENTRAL COALFIELDS LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Shri Prashant Pallav, learned counsel for the petitioners, Shri Ananda Sen, learned counsel for the respondent CCL and Shri Ratnesh Kumar, learned counsel for the respondent CMPF.

(2.) PETITIONERS in this writ application, have prayed for a direction upon the respondents to quash the demand notice (Annexure -7 series) issued by the respondents in April, 2004, whereby petitioners have been called up to deposit certain amounts of money in order to make assessment and payment of pension amount to the petitioners. A further prayer has been made for a direction upon the respondents to pay forthwith the pension to the petitioner, both arrears as well as current pension with interest @24% per annum under Coal Mines Pension Scheme 1998.

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioners explains by raising several grounds that the demanded amount is in fact arbitrary and furthermore, the petitioners from the very beginning, have called upon the respondent authorities to make a reassessment of the amount and inform them the correct amount so that they would be able to pay the amount to the respondents promptly, but it is the respondents who have adopted a stubborn attitude and the request made by the petitioners in this regard, appears to have fallen on deaf ears.