Baliram Bandu Patil v. the Secretary Planning Dpt and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
The Bombay High Court directed the State to grant pension benefits to petitions who were deemed permanent employees due to Industrial Court orders or subsequent judicial directions, specifying a relevant service reckoning date of 31 March 1997 for those absorbed post-1997 and requiring expeditious consideration of superannuated petitioners' representations within four months.
What did the court decide?
Petitioners' writ petitions were disposed of by directing the State to grant pension benefits with the reckoning date of 31 March 1997 for relevant absorbed personnel and to expeditiously consider pen