C Balan vs Post Kerala Circle on 18 August, 2022
In addition to the above, the learned SCGSC during oral submissions drew
attention to the judgment dated 16.9.2010 of the Hon'ble High Court of
Delhi in Lakhminder Singh Brar v. Union of India & Ors., in WP© No.
13191/2009 where the Hon'ble High Court had specifically gone into the
matter whether the respondents were right in granting only the provisional
pension to the petitioner instead of regular pension on account of the
pendency of Criminal Appeal against his acquittal. The Hon'ble High Court
noted that the short point before the Principal Bench of this Tribunal in the
OA No. 1991/2007 was "whether the respondents were right in granting
only the provisional pension to the petitioner instead of regular pension on
account of the pendency of Criminal Appeal against his acquittal". The
Tribunal had answered this question against the petitioner and that was why
the petitioner was before this Court. The Hon'ble Delhi High Court held in
paragraphs 12 and 13 of the judgment as under: