O.P. Gupta vs Union Of India & Ors on 3 September, 1987
9. The pension or gratuity being no longer a bounty, has to be disbursed on the date of retirement of a Government servant. The Hon'ble Apex Court in O.P.Gupta vs. Union of India, [1987] 4 SCC 328 crystallized the payment of interest for the delayed payment as a normal practice in the following words: