‘It Is Shocking’: Supreme Court Over Retired High Court Judges Getting Rs 15,000 Pension

New Delhi:  Supreme Court on Thursday expressed "shock" over some retired high court judges getting a meagre pension ranging between Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000. A bench of Justices B R Gavai, P K Mishra and K V Viswanathan was hearing a petition filed by a retired high court judge who said he was receiving a mere Rs 15,000 pension.

petitioner, who was elevated as a judge of Allahab High Court after serving as a judicial officer in district court for 13 years, claimed that authorities h refused to consider his judicial service while computing pension.

"If re are retired high court judges before us who are getting Rs 6,000 and Rs 15,000 as pension, it is shocking. How can that be?" bench remarked. Justice Gavai said post-retirement facilities for judges differed in each high court and some states provided much better benefits.

apex court reafter posted hearing on vember 27. While hearing a separate plea in March, apex court h said re cant be any discrimination in computing pensionary benefits of retired judges of high courts based on wher y were elevated from bar or district judiciary.

Pensionary benefits of a retired high court judge, who was elevated from district judiciary, should be computed based on his or her last drawn salary as a high court judge, it said.

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