SBI Kunjaban branch manager fined Rs 50 thousand by high court for withholding pension of retired CRPF jawan
By Our Correspondent
Agartala, April 11, 2025
In a crucial order that may be instructive for arrogant bank staff including executives, the high court of Tripura yesterday imposed a fine of Rs 50 thousand on the Kunjaban branch manager of the State Bank of India (SBI) for illegally withholding the monthly pension payment of a retired CRPF jawan. The amount of fine shall be deducted from the salary of the SBI branch manager and deposited bym challan with the government treasury.
According to details of the case the CRPF jawan Mahesh Lal Yadav had retired from service on December 31 2012 and was getting his pension through his account in the SBI Kunjaban branch. But suddenly and without citing any reason his pension payment was stopped from the month of April 2022. Making repeated inquiries in the bank Mahesh Lal Yadava failed to elicit a concrete answer as to why his salary payment had been stopped and then he had addressed letters to the branch manager and regional manager and was informed that the salary payment had been stopped at the instruction of an inquiry officer investigating a criminal charge against him. But Yadav had been acquitted of the criminal charge much before that .
Having no other alternative Mahesh Lal Yadav filed a case in the high court through advocate Purushottam Roybarman who argued before the single bench headed by justice T.Amarnath Gour that without a judicial order pension of a retired person could never be stopped . He also described the SBI Kunjaban branch manager’s action as ‘totally illegal and arbitrary’. Having heard advocate Purushottam Roybarman justice T.Amarnath Gour ordered the SBI Kunjaban branch manager to pay the entire arrear pension of Mahesh Lal Yadav with interest and also imposed a fine of Rs 50 thousand on the branch manager . Advocate Roybarman was assisted in the case by his juniors Samarjit Bhattacharjee , Kaushik Nath, Sutapa Debbarma and Aradhita Debbarma.
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