Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 165 · Decided 11 May 1988
Bharat Petroleum (Erstwhile Burmah Shell) Management Staff PENSIONERS. v. Bharat Petroleum Corporation LTD. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 165 · [1988] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 312
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 590/1987
- Decided
- 11 May 1988
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Burmah Shell (Acquisition of Undertakings in India) Act, 1976: ss. 3, 4, 9 & JO( 1)-Burmah Shell Management Staff Pensioliers­ Claim for escalation of pension-Admissibility of. Civil Services: Pension-No lunger considered a bounty-Held to be property-Entitlement to escalation of taken of the fact that the rupee has lost its value. Burmah Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Company of India D Limited bad a non-contributory pension fund. Consequent upon nationalisation of the petroleum industry, this fund was taken over by the Government company, respondent No. I, under s.
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