law: Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007
  14. Award of interest
  
  where any claim is allowed.-
  Where any Tribunal
  
  makes an order for maintenance made under this Act, such Tribunal may direct
  
  that in addition to the amount of maintenance, simple interest shall also be
  
  paid at such rate and from such date not earlier than the date of making the
  
  application as may be determined by the Tribunal which shall not be less than
  
  five per cent, and not more than eighteen per cent.:
  Provided that where any
  
  application for maintenance under Chapter IX of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
  
  1973 (2 of 1974) is pending before a Court at the commencement of this Act,
  
  then the Court shall allow the withdrawal of such application on the request of
  
  the parent and such parent shall be entitled to file an application for
  
  maintenance before the Tribunal