A very important ground that has arisen in the judgment of the Kerala High Court is that Pensioners have been categorized into different classes without a rational object to be achieved.
This has a relevance to our LIC Pension Rules 1995, in which Rule 55B creates a separate class of pensioners,viz, Chairman & Managing Directors Retired after 1/1/1996 on the one hand while the other class on the other consists not only of employees of all lower cadres irrespective of the date of retirement,but also Chairmen & Managing Directors retired before 1/1/1996.There can be no rational object to be achieved through such classification,when all employees from the cadre of Sweepers to the Chairman of the Corporation are wholetime employees of the Corporation and LIC Pension Rules 1995 in no other rule in respect of benefits of the Pension Scheme makes any distinction based on the cadre,but only based on basic pension.
We can examine how this judgment can be effectively made use of tn the SC.
Kind regards.
C H Mahadevan
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