https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=122854 Pension under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 was treated as deferred remuneration and a measure of social security. A retirement-date cutoff that excluded otherwise similarly situated pensioners from liberalised pension lacked rational nexus with the object of pension liberalisation and failed the test of reasonable classification under Article 14. The unconstitutional date-based limitation was severable from the valid scheme, so the liberalised formula could be applied to all pensioners governed by the rules from the operative date. The revised benefit was preserved without granting arrears for the period before that date. en-us Fri, 17 Dec 1982 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 13:06:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=122854 Pension under the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 was treated as deferred remuneration and a measure of social security. A retirement-date cutoff that excluded otherwise similarly situated pensioners from liberalised pension lacked rational nexus with the object of pension liberalisation and failed the test of reasonable classification under Article 14. The unconstitutional date-based limitation was severable from the valid scheme, so the liberalised formula could be applied to all pensioners governed by the rules from the operative date. The revised benefit was preserved without granting arrears for the period before that date. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 17 Dec 1982 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=122854