Supreme Court of India

Pensioners' Association, Ex-assam Oil Officers and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2004] 2 S.C.R. 479
Bench Brijesh Kumar and Arun Kumar JJ.
Decided 17 February 2004

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the writ petition and direct the respondents to make available the pensionary benefits to the petitioners in accordance with the formula of 1995 for revised pension.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Service Law: Burmah Oil Company (Acquisition of Shares of Oil India Ltd. and of the c undertakings in India of Assam Oil Company Ltd. and the Burmah Oil Co. (India Trading Ltd.) Act, 1981; Ss. 6(1), 11(1), 12: Acquisition of an Oil Company by the Government of India and later merging with the "Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. -Denial of benefits of revised pension scheme to the retirees of the. Oil Company-Challenge to-Held: Liabilities of the successor Corporation would include payment of pension/other pensionary benefits to the employees of the company-Pension Scheme (1973) framed by the Oil

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