India, Oct. 27 -- The Bombay High Court recently directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to release retirement dues of a former Surveillance Investigator that they withheld because he had not cleared the Marathi proficiency test. The court also held that any delay in disbursing the dues would attract interest, which would be recoverable from that officer's salary who would be responsible for the delay.

On October 16, the division bench of Justice Ravindra V Ghuge and Justice Ashwin D Bhobe was hearing a petition filed by Ibrahim Abdul Gafoor Naik, a 58-year-old retired BMC employee who had been working with the civic body since 1991. Naik approached the court after the corporation withheld his June 2025 salary and retiremen...