Hyderabad, April 10 -- The Telangana High Court has expressed strong dissatisfaction over the failure of the government to fully implement its earlier orders directing payment of retirement benefits to employees from various departments by April 9.

The court noted that although the government claimed to have made payments to 737 retired employees, only 221 petitions appeared to have been fully resolved. It was observed that while tokens had been issued, complete payments were not made in many cases.

The court made it clear that partial payments would not be acceptable and that all dues must be cleared in full within the stipulated time.

Court's warning

The court warned that if even a single case remains pending, the Finance department...