https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184767 Paragraph 7 of the 29 August 1984 Office Memorandum, which limited counting of past Government service for pension to employees retiring on or after the date of issue, was held to create an irrational classification between pensioners solely by retirement date. Because the scheme's object was to extend pensionary benefit by recognizing earlier Government service for combined service computation, the date-based restriction had no rational nexus with that object and was unconstitutional. The benefit was prospective in operation, but it could still take account of past service for qualifying service and was not impermissibly retrospective for that reason. en-us Wed, 12 Aug 1987 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 18:09:48 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184767 Paragraph 7 of the 29 August 1984 Office Memorandum, which limited counting of past Government service for pension to employees retiring on or after the date of issue, was held to create an irrational classification between pensioners solely by retirement date. Because the scheme's object was to extend pensionary benefit by recognizing earlier Government service for combined service computation, the date-based restriction had no rational nexus with that object and was unconstitutional. The benefit was prospective in operation, but it could still take account of past service for qualifying service and was not impermissibly retrospective for that reason. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 12 Aug 1987 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=184767