Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Ors. v. Gandiba Behera

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Reported as [2019] 13 S.C.R. 1136
Bench Ranjan Gogoi, Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 8 November 2019

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the impugned directions ought not to have been passed by the learned Tribunal and approved by the High Court.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Service law: Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972: Pensi on – Qualifying years of service – Calculation of – Services rendered by employees in the postal department as Gramin Dak Sev aks (GDS) after they got selected in regular posts in the sai d department – Computation for determining their qualifying service for ent itlement to pension – Held: Services rendered by the respondents a s GDS or other Extra–Departmental Agents cannot be factored in for computing their qualifying services in regular posts under the postal department for the grant of pension – On facts, res pondents not

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