DR AJIT KUMAR GOYAL vs MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI

$~34 & 35 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of decision: 08.12.2025 W.P.(C) 1114/2025 W.P.(C) 1160/2025 DR AJIT KUMAR GOYAL .....Petitioner DR YOGESH KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr.Manish Kumar, Mr.Aviral Shrotriya and Mr.Animesh Verma, Advs. versus MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Mr.Ashutosh Gupta, ASC (through VC) CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAVIN CHAWLA HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE MADHU JAIN NAVIN CHAWLA, J. (ORAL) 1. These petitions have been filed by the petitioner(s), challenging the Order dated 17.05.2024 passed by the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi (hereinafter referred to as the ‘Tribunal’) in O.A. No.2160/2023, titled Dr.Ajit Kumar Goyal, Ex. Specialist Medicine v. Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Delhi (in W.P.(C) 1114/2025), and in O.A. No.2232/2023, titled Dr.Yogesh Kumar, (Ex-consultant Eye Department HRH) v. Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of 2. While there can be no dispute about the fact that the respondent, having delayed payment of the retiral benefits to the petitioner(s), must pay interest thereon from the date on which the retiral benefits became due and payable, at the same time, in