Within the newest improvement within the matter pertaining to the Previous Pension Scheme (OPS) for Paramilitary Forces, the Supreme Courtroom on Monday confirmed the interim keep it had earlier imposed on the Delhi Excessive Courtroom order.
In January 2023, The Delhi Excessive Courtroom held that OPS can also be relevant to Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) and all of the CAPF personnel are entitled to get OPS advantages, as has been granted vide Notification dated December 22, 2003.
In July, 2023, the Supreme Courtroom handed an interim keep order on this excessive courtroom ruling.
In the present day, a bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna, Sanjay Kumar and R Mahadevan handed the order whereas granting depart to Centre to enchantment in opposition to a Delhi Excessive Courtroom order. The highest courtroom declined the request for a hard and fast date of listening to the matter however stated that the events may enchantment for an early listening to. The courtroom stated that the matter will take a while, the dwell legislation reported.
The petitioners had moved the excessive courtroom contending that regardless of a number of courtroom observations and orders holding that the paramilitary forces have been armed forces of the Union, they have been being denied advantages of OPS. They sought quashing of orders denying them the good thing about OPS in accordance with CCS (Pension) Guidelines, 1972 to them vide totally different Workplace Memorandums and Indicators issued by the Centre.
The petitioners had sought quashing of the workplace memorandum dated February 17, 2020, issued by Centre to the extent it doesn’t grant the good thing about the Previous Pension Scheme to the personnel who’ve been appointed pursuant to notifications/ ads dated January 01, 2004.
The petitioners included personnel of Central Reserve Police Drive, Sashtra Seema Bal, Border Safety Drive and Central Industrial Safety Drive, Indo Tibetan Border Police and many others. They argued that they need to be coated beneath the OPS, as within the case of the Indian Military, Air Drive and Navy.