Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Pension Freedom Fighter |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 |
Case Type | Appeal |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Appeal Allowed |
Headnote | Freedom Fighter – Pension – Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980 – Goa Freedom Fighter’s Welfare Rules, 1988 – After liberation of Goa in 1961, the State framed the Goa Freedom fighter’s Welfare Rules, 1988 – After several deliberations, a list of 22 persons was approved on 26.12.2007 for the State pension in which respondent no. 1 was also included – The Swatantrata Sainik Samman Pension Scheme, 1980 was extended by relaxing the conditions contained therein to the participants of Goa Liberation Movement, Phase-II by the Government order dated 17.02.2003 – The scheme dated 17.2.2003 clearly provided that the Central Pension is to be granted to the participants of the second phase of Goa Liberation Movement who have been granted freedom fighter pension by the State Government by 01.08.2002 – After receipt of State Pension, the respondent no. 1 sent a representation dated 06.08.2009 to the Government of India for grant of SSSP scheme from the Government of India – The Government of India found respondent no. 1 ineligible for grant of SSSP scheme under the relaxed criteria for Goa Liberation Movement, Phase-II – Writ petition by respondent no. 1 – The High Court allowed the writ petition and directed the appellant to grant the pension under SSSP scheme to the respondent no. 1 w.e.f. 11.03.2008 – Before the Supreme Court, the respondent no. 1 contended that the object of SSSP scheme was to grant Central pension to all those who are in receipt of the State pension and the scheme dated 17.02.2003 lacked intelligible differentia and also nexus with the object – Held: The object of the SSSP scheme was to grant the Freedom Fighters Central Pension to those who fulfil the eligibilities as per the Scheme – From the material available on record, it does appear that the Government of India deliberated on the issue of cut-off date to 01.08.2002 and the said cut-off date was consciously fixed for extending the benefit of SSSP scheme to participants of Goa Liberation Movement, Phase-II – The scheme was not an open-ended scheme and relaxation was granted to a particular category of persons, who were in receipt of the State pension by 01.08.2002 – The relaxation granted by order dated 17.02.2003 cannot be said to be the object of the Central Government – The object under SSSP was always and still is to grant freedom fighters pension to those who fulfil the eligibility of SSSP scheme – The submission of respondent that object of SSSP was to grant Central Pension to all those in receipt of the State pension cannot be accepted – By relaxing, the SSSP scheme for a limited category, the object of the main scheme shall not be lost nor those who are not covered by relaxed conditions can claim right to grant of SSSP Scheme, 1980 – Thus, the scheme dated 17.02.2003 has intelligible differentia and also nexus with the object – There was no error in rejecting the claim of respondent no. 1 for grant of SSSP Scheme, 1980 |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashok Bhushan |
Neutral Citation | 2020 INSC 169 |
Petitioner | Government Of India & Ors. |
Respondent | Sitakant S. Dubhashi & Anr. |
SCR | [2020] 3 S.C.R. 736 |
Judgement Date | 2020-02-11 |
Case Number | 987 |
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