Sh. Jagdish Chander v. Delhi Transport Corporation
Case brief
What is this about?
Jagdish Chander v. Delhi Transport Corporation, W.P.(C) 1463/2019 & CM APPL. 46698/2024, Delhi High Court, decided 10.02.2025 (oral, consent-based disposal; C. Hari Shankar & Ajay Digpaul JJ.). Keywords: pension optee; CPF / Contributory Provident Fund; reinstatement; superannuation 30 June 2015; pensionary benefits with interest; 6% per annum interest both ways; mutual adjustment of dues; pension forms; Central Administrative Tribunal order quashed and set aside; question of law kept alive/open; no precedent value; peculiar facts of the case; Avnish Ahlawat Standing Counsel; H.K. Chaturvedi counsel for petitioner.
What did the court decide?
By consent, DTC to disburse the pensionary benefits due to the petitioner from 30 June 2015 (date of superannuation), treating him as a pension optee, with interest, subject to the petitioner returning the entire CPF benefits availed by him with interest; interest on either side at 6% per annum with liberty to DTC to adjust the mutual dues; DTC to e-mail pension forms to the petitioner's counsel within two days, forms to be submitted within a week, payments within four weeks thereafter; impugned Central Administrative Tribunal order quashed and set aside; disposal expressly in the peculiar facts of the case with the question of law kept alive/open.