Supreme Court of India

P. Ramakrishnam Raju v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 4 S.C.R. 562

Bench P. Sathasivam, Ranjan Gogoi and N.V. Ramana JJ.

Decided 31 March 2014

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the petitioners prayed that though Part-I and Part-Ill Judges hold equivalent posts, they are not similarly situated in regard to pension and retirement benefits which is breach of Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India H and one rank one pension must be the norm in respect of a P. RAMAKRISHNAM RAJU v.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

JUDICIARY: Judicial service - High Court Judges (Salaries & Conditions of Service) Act, 1954 - s.14; First schedule Part I, Clause 2 - Pension for the retired judges of High Court who are directly appointed from the Bar - Clause 2 of Part I says 0 that no pension is payable to the judges having less than 7 years of service as a judge - Constitutional validity of - Held: The Judges, who are appointed under Article 217(2)(a) being members of the Judicial Service, even if they serve as a Judge of the High Court for only one or two years, get full pension benefits because of the applicability of

Authorities it was built on

1993 All India Judges, Association and Ors v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 15

Where later benches applied it

2024 Justice Shailendra Singh & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. relied on
2020 Dheeraj Mor v. Hon’ble High Court of Delhi relied on
2024 Union of India, Ministry of Law & Justice v. Justice (retd) Raj Rahul Garg (raj Rani Jain) and Others referred to
2022 P. Dharamaraj v. Shanmugam & Ors. referred to

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