https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282421 Beneficial pension and retirement-benefit rules were applied to High Court Judges because Rule 2 imported the service regime for an Indian Administrative Service officer holding Secretary rank, and the absence of an express gratuity clause in the parent enactment did not exclude retirement gratuity; the accrued entitlement of judges who had already retired was therefore upheld. Retrospective withdrawal of ad hoc relief was impermissible where the benefit had been continued for some retirees but withheld from others without justification, so the discontinuance was set aside and consequential protection against recovery or adjustment followed. The minimum pension threshold was also read down to avoid arbitrariness, preserving validity of the scheme and supporting enhanced pension difference. en-us Fri, 13 May 1988 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 07 Aug 2019 15:56:53 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282421 Beneficial pension and retirement-benefit rules were applied to High Court Judges because Rule 2 imported the service regime for an Indian Administrative Service officer holding Secretary rank, and the absence of an express gratuity clause in the parent enactment did not exclude retirement gratuity; the accrued entitlement of judges who had already retired was therefore upheld. Retrospective withdrawal of ad hoc relief was impermissible where the benefit had been continued for some retirees but withheld from others without justification, so the discontinuance was set aside and consequential protection against recovery or adjustment followed. The minimum pension threshold was also read down to avoid arbitrariness, preserving validity of the scheme and supporting enhanced pension difference. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 13 May 1988 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=282421