The Supreme Courtroom thereafter posted the listening to on November 27.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Courtroom on Thursday expressed “shock” over some retired excessive court docket judges getting a meagre pension ranging between Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P Ok Mishra and Ok V Viswanathan was listening to a petition filed by a retired excessive court docket choose who mentioned he was receiving a mere Rs 15,000 pension.
The petitioner, who was elevated as a choose of the Allahabad Excessive Courtroom after serving as a judicial officer within the district court docket for 13 years, claimed that the authorities had refused to think about his judicial service whereas computing the pension.
“If there are retired excessive court docket judges earlier than us who’re getting Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000 as pension, it’s surprising. How can that be?” the bench remarked.
Justice Gavai mentioned the post-retirement amenities for judges differed in every excessive court docket and a few states offered significantly better advantages.
The Supreme Courtroom thereafter posted the listening to on November 27.
Whereas listening to a separate plea in March, the apex court docket had mentioned there can’t be any discrimination in computing the pensionary advantages of retired judges of excessive courts based mostly on whether or not they had been elevated from the bar or the district judiciary.
Pensionary advantages of a retired excessive court docket choose, who was elevated from the district judiciary, must be computed based mostly on his or her final drawn wage as a excessive court docket choose, it mentioned.
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