Pension Withheld Permanently Following Conviction – No Show-Cause Notice, No Opportunity of Being Heard; Rajasthan HC Quashes Unreasoned Order
“Pension is not a bounty but a valuable statutory right earned by an employee after rendering long years of service and any order resulting in deprivation or permanent withholding of pension entails serious civil consequences and requirement of hearing is not an empty ritual but a substantive safeguard to ensure fair exercise of discretion by the authority.”