https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168494 A retired High Court Judge appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal was treated, for pension purposes, as continuing to hold a constitutional office rather than a pensionable civil post under the Union or a State. Rule 15A equated the Vice-Chairman's service conditions with those of a serving High Court Judge, but the governing Act distinguished between Judges who had not held another pensionable civil post and those who had. Because a High Court Judge is not a Government servant and judicial independence excludes a master-servant relationship with the executive, the pension had to be fixed under Part I of the First Schedule, not Part III. en-us Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Mar 2015 11:23:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168494 A retired High Court Judge appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Central Administrative Tribunal was treated, for pension purposes, as continuing to hold a constitutional office rather than a pensionable civil post under the Union or a State. Rule 15A equated the Vice-Chairman's service conditions with those of a serving High Court Judge, but the governing Act distinguished between Judges who had not held another pensionable civil post and those who had. Because a High Court Judge is not a Government servant and judicial independence excludes a master-servant relationship with the executive, the pension had to be fixed under Part I of the First Schedule, not Part III. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Nov 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=168494