Zonunmawii vs State of Mizoram - 2025 Supreme(Gau) 342

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2025 Supreme(Gau) 342

THE HIGH COURT OF GAUHATI (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH)
MARLI VANKUNG, N. UNNI KRISHNAN NAIR
Zonunmawii – Appellant
Versus
State of Mizoram – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: Ms Dinari T Azyu
For the Respondent: Addl. AG/GA, Mizoram

JUDGMENT :

N. Unni Krishnan Nair, J.

Heard Mr. Victor L. Ralte, learned counsel, appearing on behalf of the petitioners. Also heard Mrs. Linda L. Fambawl, learned Addl. Advocate General, Mizoram, appearing on behalf of all the respondents.

2. In the writ petitions being WP(c)14/2017; WP(c)126/2015; WP(c)135/2015; WP(c)28/2016; WP(c)45/2016; WP(c)96/2016; WP(c)101/2016; WP(c)131/2016; WP(c)46/2017; WP(c)47/ 2017; WP(c)111/2017; WP(c)122/2017; WP(c)144/2017; WP(c)52/2018; WP(c)53/2018; and WP(c)18/2024; challenge being presented to the provisions of “Mizoram New Defined Contributory Pension(First Amendment) Scheme, 2015”, the same were taken-up for hearing analogously.

3. The challenge as noticed hereinabove in the above-noted writ petitions, is for a declaration that the “Mizoram New Defined Contributory Pension(First Amendment) Scheme, 2015”, notified on 27.02.2015, to be ultra vires the Constitution of India . The petitioners have in the alternative prayed that, in the facts and circumstances as existing, the provisions of the “Mizoram New Defined Contributory Pension(First Amendment) Scheme, 2015”, be declared to be not a