The Delhi High Court has ordered the implementation of the old pension scheme for all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel. Along with this, the Central Government has been asked to issue necessary guidelines within eight weeks.
New Delhi : The Delhi High Court has ordered the implementation of the old pension scheme for all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel. Along with this, the Central Government has been asked to issue necessary guidelines within eight weeks.
Delhi High Court quashes the notification
The Delhi High Court quashed a 2003 notification of the Ministry of Finance and an Office Letter (OM) of the year 2020 of the Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare, in which the Central The personnel appointed in the paramilitary forces have been deprived of the benefits of the old pension scheme.
In this case, the personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have filed petitions.
Know what the bench of two judges said
Justice Suresh Kumar Kait and Justice Nina Bansal Krishna’s bench said, ‘It is clarified that the notification dated December 22, 2003 as well as the old pension scheme (OPS) 17 The office memorandum of February, 2020 will be applicable in Rem (directed against anything).
This means that the OPS will be applicable not only to the petitioners in this case, but to all CAPF personnel at large, the bench said. Accordingly, necessary orders may be issued within eight weeks.
The judgment was pronounced on Wednesday and uploaded on the High Court website on Thursday.
Let us tell you that demand is being raised not only from the paramilitary forces, but also from the employees regarding the old pension scheme. A decision has been taken on this in states like Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, whereas in Himachal Pradesh also the government is preparing to take a decision on this.
