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2023 Supreme(Del) 2301

SURESH KUMAR KAIT, NEENA BANSAL KRISHNA
Pawan Kumar – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
Ankur Chhibber & Anshuman Mehrotra, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 16525/2022 & CM APPL. 51908/2022.
Ms. Ankita Patnaik, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C1) 8759/2021.
Nikhil Bhardwaj, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 10614/2022.
Nikhil Palli, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 13853/2022.
Rajat Arora, Dipu Kumar Jha and Miraj Kumar, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11166/2022.
Pankaj Kumar, Sandeep Kr. Singh, Shubhendu Saxena & Rishabh Agarwal, Advocates, for the Petitioner in W.P.(C) 6379/2021 & CM APPL. 42393/2021.
Padma Kumar.S, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 14891/2021.
Amit Bardhan Mohanty, Advocate, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 11113/2022.
Akash Mohan & Amit Bardhan Mohanty, Advocates, for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 15537/2022.
Advocate (appearance not given), for the Petitioners in W.P.(C) 16548/2022.
Jatin Singh, Advocate in W.P.(C) 16201/20229
Ripu Daman Bhardwaj, CGSC in W.P.(C) 11947/2022
J.P.N. Shahi with Ms. J. Kiran, Advocates in W.P.(C) 12474/2022
Nirvikar Verma with Ms. Poonam, Advocates in W.P.(C) 14293/2022
N.K. Aggarwal & Jatin Singh, Senior Panel Counsel with Ms. Geetanjali Tyagi, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 14501/2022
Ms. Aakansha Kaul & Harsh Ojha, Advocates with Anirudh Shukla, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 6379/2021; W.P.(C) 6900/2021; W.P.(C) 13112/2022; W.P.(C) 13181/2022
Jivesh Kumar Tiwari, Senior Panel Counsel & Ms. Samiksha, Advocate with Paramveer Singh, AC, LAW, BSF in W.P.(C) 3956/2017
T.P.Singh, Senior Central Government Counsel with Paramveer Singh, AC, LAW, BSF in W.P.(C) 110/2020; W.P.(C) 7088/2021; W.P.(C) 13762/2021; W.P.(C) 7065/2022
Harish Vaidyanathan, CGSC with Srish Kumar Mishra, Sagar Mehlawat & Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Advocates in W.P.(C) 12712/2021; W.P.(C) 2116/2021; W.P.(C) 11390/2021; W.P.(C) 11393/2021; W.P.(C) 14891/2021
Ms. Anju Gupta, Senior Panel Counsel with R.L. Goel, Advocate in W.P.(C) 1480/2020
Vikrant N. Goyal, Advocate in W.P.(C) 8759/2021; W.P.(C) 12645/2021; W.P.(C) 709/2022; W.P.(C) 10674/2022
Ms. Nidhi Raman, CGSC with Zubin Singh and Ms. Charu Modi, Advocates in W.P.(C) 8879/2021
Ajay Digpaul, CGSC, Kamal Digpaul & Ms. Swati Kwatra, Advocates in W.P.(C) 8995/2021; W.P.(C) 14238/2021; W.P.(C) 1347/2022
Rajesh Kumar and Shaurya Katoch, Advocates in W.P.(C) 10511/2021
Ms. Archana Gaur, Senior Panel Counsel with SI Prahlad Devenda, CISF in W.P.(C) 13948/2021; W.P.(C) 1785/2022
Shashank, Senior Panel Counsel, Jitendra Kumar Tripathi, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 13989/2021
Ms. Bharathi Raju, Senior Panel Counsel in W.P.(C) 14105/2021; W.P.(C) 14436/2021
Apporv Kurup, CGSC & Ms. Swati Bhardwaj, Ms. Aparna Arun, Ms. Damini Garg, Ojashia Pathak, Advocates in W.P.(C) 14227/2021
Sanjay Kumar, Senior Panel Counsel with Vedansh Anand, Govt. Pleader SI Prahlad Devenda in W.P.(C) 14227/2021; W.P.(C) 6177/2022
Shoumendu Mukherji, Senior Panel Counsel & Ms. Megha Sharma, Advocate in W.P.(C) 15271/2022
Dev. P. Bhardwaj, CGSC, Ms.Anubha Bhardwaj, Sarthak Anand, Madhulak Bhardwaj & Ms.Ankita Gautam, Advocates in W.P.(C) 2314/2022
Ritesh Vikram Srivastva, Senior Panel Counsel, Prajesh Vikram Srivastva, Advocates with Sh. Paramveer Singh, AC, LAW, BSF in W.P.(C) 3424/2022
Avnish Singh, Senior Central Government Counsel with Aditya Vikram Dembla, Advocates with Sh. Paramveer Singh, AC, LAW, BSF in W.P.(C) 3456/2022
Manish Mohan, CGSC & Jatin Teotia, Advocates in W.P.(C) 5333/2022
Ms. Talish Ray, Advocate in W.P.(C) 6137/2022
Hemant Kumar Yadav with Abhigyan Siddhant, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 6789/2022
Ms. Pratima N. Lakra, Central Government Standing Counsel with Paramveer Singh, AC,LAW,BSF in W.P.(C) 127/2022
Jaswinder Singh Phull, Senior Panel Counsel & Anirudh Shukla, Advocate with Paramveer Singh, AC,LAW,BSF in W.P.(C) 2089/2022
Jaswinder Singh, Advocate in W.P.(C) 2829/2022; W.P.(C) 13391/2022
Nirvikar Verma, Senior Panel Counsel, Chetanya Puri & Anand Awasthi, Advocates in W.P.(C) 6020/2022
Ms. Garima Sachdeva, Senior Advocate with Ms. Archana Surve, Advocate in W.P.(C) 6156/2022
Anil Soni, CGSC, Rahul Mourya & Jitender Kumar Tripathi, Advocate in W.P.(C) 6869/2022
Amit Gupta, Senior Panel Counsel with Rishav Dubey, Govt Pleader in W.P.(C) 7168/2022
Pradeep Kumar Jha, Senior Panel Counsel, Keshav Sehgal, Kashish Bajaj, Shubham Agarwal & Shivam Gaur, Advocates in W.P.(C) 7214/2022
Nirvikar Varma, Senior Panel Counsel with Anirudh Shukla, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 7258/2022
Sandeep Tyagi, PC for UOI with Paramveer Singh, AC (LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 8575/2022
Akshay Amritanshu, Samyak Jain & Divyansh Singh, Advocates in W.P.(C) 8602/2022
Siddharth Khatana, Senior Panel Counsel with Rishav Dubey, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 8641/2022
Bhagvan Swarup Shukla, Central Government Standing Counsel with Sarvan Kumar, Advocate in W.P.(C) 9740/2022 Paramveer Singh, AC (LAW) in W.P.(C) 10447/2022
S.A. Haseeb, Senior Panel Counsel with Gokul Sharma, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 10614/2022
Anurag Ahluwalia, Central Government Standing Counsel, Danish Faraz Khan & Rahul Sharma, Advocates in W.P.(C) 10631/2022
Santosh Kumar Pandey, Senior Panel Counsel with Reshesh Mani Tripathi, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 10815/2022
Jitesh Vikram Srivastava, Senior Panel Counsel with Prajesh Vikram Srivastava, Advocate for UOI in W.P.(C) 10849/2022
Chiranjeet, Senior Panel Counsel with R.M.Tripathi, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 11059/2022
Jatin Singh Puniyani, Central Government Standing Counsel & Ms.Geetanjali Tyagi, Government Pleader with Inspector Sanjay Kumar CISF in W.P.(C) 11113/2022
Kavindra Gill, Senior Panel Counsel with Sajan Shankar Prasad, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 11133/2022
Niraj Kumar, Senior Central Government Counsel with Rishav Dubey, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 11166/2022
Akshay Amritanshu, Senior Panel Counsel, Samyak Jain, Divyansh Singh, Advocates with R.M. Tripathi, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 11626/2022
Rajnish Kumar Gaind, Senior Panel Counsel in W.P.(C) 11735/2022
Jatin Singh, Keshav Sehgal, Kashish Bajaj, Shubham Agarwal & Shivam Gaur, Advocates with Paramveer Singh, AC(LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 11737/2022
Ajay Kumar Pandey, Senior Panel Counsel, Piyush Mishra & Sahib Gurdeep Singh, Government Pleader Sushil Raaja, Senior Panel Counsel with Ms.Vidhi Gupta, Government Pleader & Paramveer Singh, AC (LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 12838/2022
Tanveer Ahmed Ansari, Senior Panel Counsel & Rudra Paliwal, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 13161/2022
Farman Ali, Senior Panel Counsel, Ms.Usha Jamnal & Krishan Kumar, Advocates in W.P.(C) 13174/2022
Sushil Kumar Pandey, Senior Panel Counsel with Paramveer Singh, AC (LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 13827/2022
Atul Gulderia, Special Public Prosecutor for CBI,Ms.Preeti Sharma, Advocate with Paramveer Singh, AC(LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 13853/2022
Sandeep Vishnu, Senior Panel Counsel & Ms.Tanvi Sharma, Advocate with Amit Acharya, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 15537/2022
Vineet Dhanda, Central Government Standing Counsel with Hussain Taqvi, Advocate with Ms.Archana Surve, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 15809/2022
Ankur Yadav, Senior Panel Counsel with Anukalp Jain, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 15951/2022
Manish Kumar, Senior Panel Counsel with Ms.Chetanya Puri, Government Pleader in W.P.(C) 15977/2022
Vineet Dhanda, Central Government Standing Counsel, Hussain Taqvi, Advocate with Paramveer Singh, AC(LAW) BSF in W.P.(C) 16548/2022

JUDGMENT

Suresh Kumar Kait, J.

1. The petitioners in the above captioned petitions are employees of different forces i.e. Central Reserve Police Force ('CRPF'), Sashtra Seema Bal ('SSB'), Border Security Force ('BSF') and Central Industrial Security Force ('CISF') Indo Tibetan Border Police ('ITBP') etc., who have preferred these petitions under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of a writ of certiorari to the respondents for quashing of orders denying them the benefit of Old Pension Scheme ('OPS') in accordance with CCS (Pension) Rules, 1972 to them vide different Office Memorandums and Signals issued by the respondents. In addition, also sought quashing of OM dated 17.02.2020 issued by respondents to the extent it does not grant benefit of Old Pension Scheme to the personnel who have been appointed pursuant to notifications/ advertisements dated 01.01.2004.

2. The primary relief sought by the petitioners in these petitions is for grant of OPS to the personnel, who have though been appointed after 01.01.2004, but had applied for the posts prior to 01.01.2004. Since the relief sought in these petitions is similar, therefore, vide order dated 08.08.2022 [






















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