Supreme Court of India

Indian Ex Servicemen Movement & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 9 S.C.R. 885

Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Surya Kant and Vikram Nath JJ.

Decided 16 March 2022

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Armed Forces: One Rank One Pension-OROP – Constitutionality of – Writ petition challenging the manner in which the OROP policy for ex-servicemen of defence forces has been implemented by the Union of India through a letter dated 07.11.2015 issued to the Chiefs of three defence forces – Letter defini ng OROP as the payment of uniform pension to armed services personnel retiring in the same rank with the same length of servic e, irrespective of the date of retirement; that OROP aims to bridge the gap between the rate of pension of current and past pensioners at periodic intervals – Petitioners

Authorities it was built on

1982 D.S. Nakara & Others v. Union of India cited by 127
2017 Kalpana Mehta and Others v. Union of India and Others cited by 16
2020 The State of Jharkhand and Ors. v. Brahmputra Metallics Ltd., Ranchi and Anr. cited by 11
2006 Col. (retd.) B.J. Akkara v. The Govt. of India and Ors. cited by 9
1997 K.L. Rathee v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 9
2017 Union of India & Ors. v. Balbir Singh Turn & Anr. cited by 4
2008 Union of India and Anr. v. Sps Vains (retd.) and Ors. cited by 3
1991 Indian Ex-services League and Ors. Etc. v. Union of India and Ors. Etc. cited by 3
2018 Suchet Singh Yadav & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 2
2008 State of Arunachal Pradesh v. Nezone Law House, Assam cited by 1

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