Supreme Court of India

Himachal Road Transport Corporation & Anr v. Himachal Road Transport Corporation Retired Employees Union

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Reported as [2021] 2 S.C.R. 104

Bench Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and M.R. Shah JJ.

Decided 22 February 2021

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that judgment of the High Court deserves to be set aside.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Pension: Fixation of cut-off date for implementing pension scheme – Whether discriminatory – Employees of the appellant Corporation were governed by the Contributory Provi dent Fund Scheme – Appellant Corporation introduced Pension scheme in the year 1995 – Cut-off date for implementation of pens ion date was fixed as 5.6.1995 that is from the date on which Sc heme was approved by the Cabinet/Government – Plea of respon dent-Union that the fixation of cut-off date was arbitrary and discri minatory – Held: Employees of the appellant-corporation who were governed by the Contributory Provident

Authorities it was built on

1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India cited by 127
2005 State of Punjab and Ors. v. Amar Nath Goyal and Ors. cited by 13
1991 Union of India and Anr. v. Deoki Nandan Aggarwal cited by 10
1997 State of Ratasthan and Anr. v. Amrit Lal Gandhi and Ors cited by 4
2008 Government of Andhra Pradesh & Ors. v. N. Subbarayudu & Ors. cited by 3
2001 Subrata Sen and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 2
2019 All Manipur Pensioners Association by its Secretary v. The State of Manipur and Others cited by 2
2018 Suchet Singh Yadav & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 2
1987 R.L. Marwaha v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 The Reserve Bank of India v. M.T. Mani and Another referred to
2026 The State of Kerala v. M. Vijayakumar mentioned

Of those, 1 referred to · 1 mentioned

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