Pension Archives

Termination of a Swiss national's widower's pension: ECHR finds no weighty and convincing reasons for such differential treatment on grounds of gender

“References to traditions, general assumptions or prevailing social attitudes in a particular country are insufficient justification for a difference in treatment on grounds of sex, whether in favour of women or men”

Case Briefs Supreme Court

UP Housing and Development Board’s function does not include fixing its employees’ service conditions; SC modifies 2014’s Preetam Singh verdict

On 10.02.2020, a division bench had come to the conclusion that the view taken by this Court in Preetam Singh’s case needs reconsideration after it prima facie found that the functions of the Board contemplated under Section 15 of the 1965 Act were wide enough even to cover the act of fixing service conditions of its employees. Hence, the matter was referred to a larger bench.

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Supreme Court | Denying similar benefits to similarly situated Government employees working under same employer amounts to discrimination

Supreme Court: In an appeal filed against the judgment of the Delhi High Court, wherein the Court has set aside

Case Briefs High Courts

Tripura High Court | Employees of statutory organizations cannot claim pensionary benefits as a matter of right

Tripura High Court: In a batch of writ petitions filed for directing the State Government to provide similar Pension benefit as granted

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Financial crunch a valid ground to fix cut-off date for granting actual benefit of revision of pension/pay; Rule 3(3) of Tripura State Civil Services (Revised Pension) Rules, 2009 constitutional: Supreme Court

Supreme Court: The bench of MR Shah* and BV Nagarathna, JJ has held that the financial crunch/financial constraint due to additional financial

Case Briefs High Courts

Freedom fighters’ pension cannot be taken as ‘income’ to deny family pension; Objective of Freedom Fighter Pension Scheme is to honour the sacrifices of the fighters: Madras High Court

Madras High Court: B Pugalendhi J. allowed the family pension to be given to the daughter ‘petitioner’ arising out of the employment

Case Briefs High Courts

Delhi High Court allows mercy petition filed by widow of a deceased/dismissed employee seeking ‘compassionate allowance’ in view of R. 41 of CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972

Delhi High Court: A Division Bench of Suresh Kumar Kait and Saurabh Banerjee, JJ. granted compassionate allowance to widow of Late Naik

Case Briefs High Courts

Madhya Pradesh High Court | Irregular grant of bail may reflect upon competency of the Judge but does not mean that he is corrupt; Compulsory retirement set aside

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The Division Bench of Ravi Malimath, CJ. and Vishal Mishra, J. allowed a writ petition and issued several

Case Briefs High Courts

Kerala High Court| Consider compulsory licensing of breast cancer drug Ribociclib; HC directs Central Government

Kerala High Court: While adjudicating a petition filed by a breast cancer patient seeking to afford life-saving medicines which otherwise cost more

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT | Can a defence person change the name of his wife twice in his service records? Tribunal answers

Armed Forces Tribunal (Lucknow Bench): The Division Bench of Justice Umesh Chandra Srivastava, Member (J) and Vice Admiral Abhay Raghunath Karve, Member

Case Briefs High Courts

Cal HC | On failure of State’s duty to disburse the gratuity and pension amount on the due date, interest is obligatory

Calcutta High Court: Amrita Sinha, J. disposed of a petition which was filed by an Assistant Teacher who retired from service on

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can State deny benefits of New Pension Scheme citing delayed appointments when the delay was not attributable to employees? Supreme Court answers

Supreme Court: The Division Bench comprising Ajay Rastogi and Bela M. Trivedi, JJ., reversed the impugned judgment of the Madras High Court and held that

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can employer recover excess increment granted on account of error after 10 years of retirement of the employee? Supreme Court decides

Supreme Court: Reversing the concurrent findings of the Single Judge and Division Bench of Kerala High Court, the Bench of S. Abdul

Cases Reported SCC Weekly

2022 SCC Vol. 3 Part 4

In Part 4 of 2022 SCC Volume 3, read some very pertinent Supreme Court decisions, involving aspects regarding reservation, accountability of social

High Court Round Up Legal RoundUp

110 Reports from 20 High Courts: Money Laundering, Child Marriages, Rule of Law, PC & PNDT Act, Adultery, Media Trial and more | April RoundUp 2022

110 Reports from 20 High Courts Allahabad High Court Money Laundering For money launderers “jail is the rule and bail is an

Case Briefs High Courts

If service of an employee at his superannuation is less than ten years, then previous temporary or officiating service needed to be counted for qualifying service for pension: Bom HC

Bombay High Court: The Division Bench of R.D. Dhanuka and S.G. Mehare, JJ., expressed that, for condoning the interruption in service, the

Case Briefs High Courts

Ill-treatment meted out to respondent-mother, expelled from her own house, allegations of mental, physical and social abuse; Raj HC directs petitioner-son to vacate the house with his family

Rajasthan High Court: Sameer Jain J. dismissed the petition and refused to interfere with the impugned order. Factual Background The facts of

Case Briefs Supreme Court

Can employee claim Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity where a criminal appeal in corruption case is pending against him and sentence is suspended? SC answers

Supreme Court: In an interesting case where the Division Bench of Sanjay Kishan Kaul* and M.M. Sundresh, JJ., was to answer whether

Case Briefs High Courts

Megh HC | Court decides on eligibility of family pension under Rule 48 of Meghalaya Civil Services Pension Rules of 1983

Meghalaya High Court: H. S. Thangkhiew J. dismissed the petition and affirmed that the petitioner was not eligible to avail family pension.

Case Briefs Tribunals/Commissions/Regulatory Bodies

AFT grants war injury pension to soldier who sustained injuries resulting in disability during Operation Hifazat

Armed Forces Tribunal (Chandigarh Bench): The Bench of Justice Dharam Chand Chaudhary (Member J) and Vice Admiral HCS Bisht (Member A), granted