D.S. Nakara & Others vs Union Of India on 17 December, 1982
In D.S. Nakara [D.S. Nakara v. Union of India,
(1983) 1 SCC 305, this Court had treated the pension
retirees only, as a homogeneous class and all the
pensioners governed by the 1972 Rules, were treated
as a class, because payment of pension was a
continuing obligation on the part of the State, till
lifelong to the pensioners, unlike the beneficiaries of
the Contributory Provident Fund. In the said case, it
was never held that the pension retirees and the emplo
ryees in service, constitute a homogeneous class. In R.L
.