Twenty-one years after the Bombay High Court asked a city-based businessman to deposit with its registry Rs 62,000 disputed by him as electricity charges, a bench has ordered that he may be paid 9 per cent interest on the principal sum from 1993 to 2010 within three months.

The order was delivered recently by A S Gadkari and B R Gavai on a petition filed by 64-year-old Dilip Nevatia staying at Worli Sea Face area of Central Mumbai.