Supreme Court of India

Tahazhathe Purayil Sarabi & Ors. v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [2009] 10 S.C.R. 70

Bench Altamas Kabir and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma JJ.

Decided 14 May 2009

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we are unable to sustain the order of the Railway Claims Tribunal directing payment of interest on default of the payment of the principal sum within a period of 45 days.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Interest Act, 1978 - s.3 - Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 c - s.34 - Money decree - Interest on, since when payable - Death of railway passenger - Compensation claim - Railway Claims Tribunal awarded compensation but did not grant interest on awarded amount from date of incident or date of claim - It awarded interest only in case of default in compliance with order for deposit of compensation amount - ~ Held: Payment of interest follows as a matter of course when a money decree is passed - Interest is essentially a compensation payable on account of denial of the right to utilize the money

Authorities it was built on

1975 Pratap Narain Singh Deo v. Srinivas Sabata and Anr. cited by 18
2008 Union of India v. Prabhakaran Vijaya Kumar & Ors. cited by 10

Where later benches applied it

2017 Dushyant N. Dalal and Another v. Securities and Exchange Board of India relied on
2013 Dr. Balram Prasad v. Dr. Kunal Saha & Ors. relied on
2020 K Sivaraman & Ors. v. P Sathishkumar & Anr. referred to
2025 I.K. Merchants Pvt. Ltd. & Ors. v. The State of Rajasthan & Ors. mentioned
2018 Union of India v. Rina Devi mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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