Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1025 · Decided 9 September 2008
Union of India and ANR. v. SPS Vains (RETD.) and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1025 · [2008] 13 S.C.R. 257
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5566/2008
- Decided
- 9 September 2008
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
'1 Constitution of India, 1950: Article 14 - Disparity in payment of pension to officers c of same rank, who had retired prior to introduction of revised pay scale with those who retired thereafter- Held: Is arbitrary and violative of Art. 14 - Service Law - Cut off date for creating class of ~ The question which arose for consideration in the D ~ present appeal is whether the officers of the rank of Major 'I General in the army and of equivalent rank in the two other wings of the Defence forces, who had retired prior to 1.1.1996, have been validly excluded from the benefit of the
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