The Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to the State of Uttar Pradesh filing appeals before it challenging directions to pay pension to retired government servants [State of Uttar Pradesh and Another v. Shashi Srivastava]..A vacation bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal was of the view that the State had made it a trend to challenge normal pension matters before the apex court."State coming to Supreme Court to stop somebody getting pension. What is this going on? Why are you stopping someone from getting pension. Every time State comes up against grant of pension," Justice Oka orally remarked..When the counsel for State of Uttar Pradesh persisted that the pensioner in this case was employed on ad-hoc basis and there were errors in the decision of the Allahabad High Court allowing pension, Justice Oka retorted that somebody who has worked for many years is entitled to pension. "Supreme Court is not there for such matters. Somebody who has worked for so many years, he is entitled to pension," he said before dismissing the appeal. .[Read Live Coverage]
The Supreme Court on Monday took strong exception to the State of Uttar Pradesh filing appeals before it challenging directions to pay pension to retired government servants [State of Uttar Pradesh and Another v. Shashi Srivastava]..A vacation bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice Rajesh Bindal was of the view that the State had made it a trend to challenge normal pension matters before the apex court."State coming to Supreme Court to stop somebody getting pension. What is this going on? Why are you stopping someone from getting pension. Every time State comes up against grant of pension," Justice Oka orally remarked..When the counsel for State of Uttar Pradesh persisted that the pensioner in this case was employed on ad-hoc basis and there were errors in the decision of the Allahabad High Court allowing pension, Justice Oka retorted that somebody who has worked for many years is entitled to pension. "Supreme Court is not there for such matters. Somebody who has worked for so many years, he is entitled to pension," he said before dismissing the appeal. .[Read Live Coverage]