Supreme Court of India

K.C. Bajaj and Others v. Union of India and Others

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Reported as [2013] 14 S.C.R. 1100
Bench G.S. Singhvi and Kurian Joseph JJ.
Decided 27 November 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the ratio of the Digambar's case cannot be invoked to justify the pick and choose methodology adopted by the Union of India in resisting the claim of similarly situated doctors that NPA 0 payable to them shall be taken into consideration for calculating the pension.

Judgment, page 35

From the headnote

Service Law: c Non Practicing Allowance (NPA) - Inclusion of, for calculating the pension - For the doctors employed with different departments of Central Government other than the doctors in Defence services - The benefit denied relying on the case wherein Supreme Court denied such benefit to the doctors of defence services - Held: The case of doctors in defence services was covered by Circular dated 7.6.1999 issued by Ministry of Defence - The case of the doctors in different departments was covered by O.M. dated 7.4.1998 issued by Ministry of Personnel (Public Grievances and Pension),

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