The Supreme Court thereafter posted the listening to on November 27.
New Delhi:
The Supreme Court on Thursday expressed “shock” over some retired excessive courtroom judges getting a meagre pension ranging between Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000.
A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P Okay Mishra and Okay V Viswanathan was listening to a petition filed by a retired excessive courtroom decide who mentioned he was receiving a mere Rs 15,000 pension.
The petitioner, who was elevated as a decide of the Allahabad High Court after serving as a judicial officer within the district courtroom for 13 years, claimed that the authorities had refused to contemplate his judicial service whereas computing the pension.
“If there are retired excessive courtroom 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 courtroom and a few states supplied a lot better advantages.
The Supreme Court thereafter posted the listening to on November 27.
While listening to a separate plea in March, the apex courtroom 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 courtroom decide, who was elevated from the district judiciary, must be computed based mostly on his or her final drawn wage as a excessive courtroom decide, it mentioned.
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