https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389504 Resignation under Rule 26 of the Central Civil Service Pension Rules 1972 results in forfeiture of past service, and that consequence cannot be avoided by treating resignation as voluntary retirement merely because the employee had completed the qualifying service period. The SC distinguished resignation from voluntary retirement and held that beneficial pension provisions do not erase that distinction or give retrospective effect to the voluntary retirement regime. Completion of twenty years' service did not override the legal effect of resignation, so pensionary entitlement was denied and the finding of voluntary retirement was set aside. en-us Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:04:44 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389504 Resignation under Rule 26 of the Central Civil Service Pension Rules 1972 results in forfeiture of past service, and that consequence cannot be avoided by treating resignation as voluntary retirement merely because the employee had completed the qualifying service period. The SC distinguished resignation from voluntary retirement and held that beneficial pension provisions do not erase that distinction or give retrospective effect to the voluntary retirement regime. Completion of twenty years' service did not override the legal effect of resignation, so pensionary entitlement was denied and the finding of voluntary retirement was set aside. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 05 Dec 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=389504