Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1205 · Decided 5 November 2019
Union of India & ORS. v. LT. COL. Om Dutt Sharma (RETD.) Dead Through LRS & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1205 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 9
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 8139/2019
- Decided
- 5 November 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law: Pension - One Rank one Pension (OROP) - Entitlement to - Of the personnel of Army Postal Service (APS), on deputation from Department of Posts and Telegraph - Held: The Army Instructions show that the members of APS hold a lien in their parent department the Army - Such instructions clearly stipulate that the pension to the members of APS will be as per civil rules - Being member of APS during the period of their temporary Commission does not make them a pensioner of Armed Forces entitling them to OROP. Allowing the appeal, the Court
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