UP News: Allahabad HC Gives Big Relief To Employees Over Pension Deduction

Recently, the Allahabad High Court gave big relief to employees and officers of departments, including retired teachers, by claiming no deductions on their pensions. As per latest UP News, the court has ordered the committee constituted by the country government on this reply to take the illustration of the petitioners and eliminate it in 3 months.

Court Halts Pension Recovery Until Consent

HC also mentioned that no recovery will be made from the pension of the petitioners till the agreement of the concern. This order was handed by a single bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan. The petitioners argued that a some amount is deducted from the monthly pension of the petitioners as a recovery of the lump sum amount they had taken on basis of pension during retirement

The amount of monthly deduction is sensitive to the percentage of the amount taken by the employee on the time of retirement. Thus, with the monthly deduction being made, the stated strengthened pension taken by the employee is paid along with interest in 10 years and 11 months, which may be broadly performed for 11 years or may be recovered for a maximum of 12 years.

 15-Year Deduction Rule over Pension

It was argued that the authorities order issued through the state government on December 8, 2008 made the period of monthly deduction 15 years which was not legal. At the same time, the finance branch told the court that a committee has been enabled to handle problems of the petitioners.

On this UP News, the court gave the petitioners 1 month to post their representations before the committee and thereafter ordered to do away with the petitioners' representations in 3 months. The court also clarified that the petitioners aggrieved the decision of the committee can report a petition once more. The court has ordered the railways to adopt the same system in respect of railway employees as well.