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State Of Jharkhand & Ors vs Jitendra Kumar Srivastava & Anr on 14 August, 2013
6. Having thus heard both the sides and having
considered the material on record, as is apparent
from the record, the petitioner has on his
attaining the age of superannuation retired on
August 31, 2014 and the period of 12 months from
the date of superannuation has already passed,
however, no amount of pension or pensionary
benefits have been granted to the petitioner. As
rightly pointed out by the learned counsel
appearing for the petitioner and as is quite
apparent from the Pension Rules, the entire
process is to be undertaken before a year the
employee retires. The respondent is not obliging
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the petitioner by paying him the pension. It is
the right of an employee, which he earns after
putting in qualifying years of service. The Apex
Court has equated the same with property of an
employee in the case of State of Jharkhand and
others v. Jitendra Kumar Srivastava and another,
(2013) 12 SCC 210. It would be profitable to
regurgitate the relevant observations and
findings of the said decision, which read as
under :
Deokinandan Prasad vs State Of Bihar & Ors on 4 May, 1971
"12. Right to receive pension was recognized
as right to property by the Constitution
Bench Judgment of this Court in Deokinandan
Prasad vs. State of Bihar; (1971) 2 SCC 330,
as is apparent from the following
discussion:
State Of West Bengal vs Haresh C. Banerjee & Ors on 30 August, 2006
In State of West Bengal Vs. Haresh C.
Banerjee and Ors. (2006) 7 SCC 651, this
Court recognized that even when, after the
repeal of Article 19(1)(f) and Article 31
(1) of the Constitution vide Constitution
(FortyFourth Amendment) Act, 1978 w.e.f.
20th June, 1979, the right to property was
no longer remained a fundamental right, it
was still a Constitutional right, as
provided in Article 300A of the
Constitution. Right to receive pension was
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treated as right to property. Otherwise,
challenge in that case was to the vires of
Rule 10(1) of the West Bengal Services
(Deathcum Retirement Benefit) Rules, 1971
which conferred the right upon the Governor
to withhold or withdraw a pension or any
part thereof under certain circumstances and
the said challenge was repelled by this
Court.
Uoi vs Lt. Col. O.P. Singh (R) on 18 July, 2014
It was further held that the State cannot by
an executive order curtail or abolish
altogether the right of the public servant
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to receive pension. This decision was given
by a learned Single Judge. This decision was
taken up in Letters Patent Appeal by the
Union of India. The Letters Patent Bench in
its decision in Union of India v. Bhagwant
Singh I.L.R. 1965 Pun 1 approved the
decision of the learned Single Judge. The
Letters Patent Bench held that the pension
granted to a public servant on his
retirement is "property" within the meaning
of Article
31(1)
of the Constitution and he
could be deprived of the same only by an
authority of law and that pension does not
cease to be property on the mere denial or
cancellation of it. It was further held that
the character of pension as "property"
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