4 min readNew DelhiMar 18, 2026 04:28 PM IST Chhattisgarh High Court news: The Chhattisgarh High Court has held that pension is not a bounty and the state cannot deny rightful dues to a retired employee or his family due to its own failure to conclude departmental proceedings in time, affirming interest on pensionary benefits delayed by nearly three decades. A bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal was hearing the state’s appeal against a single judge verdict granting 9 per cent interest on the release of pension of a government employee after 23 years. Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal observed that the state retained the money that was due for decades. “Administrative inefficiency or delay in completing departmental proceedings cannot operate to the detriment of the retired employee or his family,” the court said on March 17. Pension not bounty, delay extraordinary Pension and other retiral benefits are not a bounty but constitute a valuable and enforceable right of an employee earned by virtue of long …