Liability to pay compensatory cost

Every Appellate Authority or Competent Officer or designated officer or his subordinate public servant who fails to deliver or dispose the citizen related services or appeals of a citizen within the stipulated time shall be liable to pay compensatory cost at the rate of twenty rupees per day for the period of delay subject to a maximum of five hundred rupees per application, in aggregate, if there is no ban or restriction from the Government to provide the same. ]

¹ Substituted by Act 31 of 2014 w.e.f. 06.09.2014