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Time of India
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Initial appt date must be considered for pension: HC
Hyderabad: Holding that the date of initial appointment should be the determining factor for pension eligibility, irrespective of the nomenclature or nature of the post, Justice Surepalli Nanda of the Telangana high court directed the state govt to process pension proposals for a group of former contract medical officers. The court recognised their temporary service from 2002 to 2006 as qualifying service for pensionary benefits. The ruling came in response to a writ petition filed by Dr C Narmada and 51 other former contract medical officers who had served in sanctioned posts in the state's Ayurvedic and Homoeopathic departments on a consolidated pay basis. The petitioners challenged the govt's failure to consider their contractual service under the Andhra Pradesh Revised Pension Rules, 1980, for pension, gratuity, and other retirement benefits. They contended that similar benefits had been extended in comparable cases, citing relevant precedents and the Supreme Court's decision in Prem Singh vs state of Uttar Pradesh. The petitioners also relied on a previous ruling by the high court in their support. Notably, the govt's counsel did not object to the petitioners' reliance on the high court's earlier ruling. Justice Nanda, referring to multiple judgments from the Supreme Court and high courts, held that temporary and contractual service must be counted as qualifying service under Rules 13 and 14 of the Pension Rules. She also underscored constitutional protections under Articles 14, 16, 21, 39(d), 43, and 300-A, affirming that pension constitutes a property right and cannot be denied arbitrarily. Allowing the writ petition, the court directed the state govt to process and issue pension payment orders within three weeks of receiving the order. The court specifically instructed that the initial date of appointment be used as the basis for computing pension entitlement.
Time of India
24-05-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Telangana high court allows Konatham to travel to US
Hyderabad: A vacation bench of the Telangana high court comprising Justices Surepalli Nanda and J Sreenivas Rao allowed BRS social media activist Konatham Dileep Reddy to travel to the US, where he attended a memorial book launch in memory of his late father in Virginia recently. Tired of too many ads? go ad free now Earlier, a single judge had refused interim relief, citing 10 FIRs against Dileep Reddy and active look-out circulars (LOCs), and deferred the matter to June. Challenging this, he filed an appeal, arguing the delay would defeat the purpose of his travel. Overruling objections to the maintainability of the appeal, the court relied on prior rulings and set aside the May 1 order, and permitted Dileep Reddy to travel between May 9 and June 11. Senior counsel K Vivek Reddy, appearing for Dileep Reddy, clarified that his client was an accused in only two of the ten FIRs, and the LOC should not restrict his fundamental right to travel. The bench ruled in his favour, affirming that being named in a criminal case does not negate one's constitutional right to travel under Article 21. Citing SC precedents — Sumit Mehta v. State of NCT of Delhi, Satwant Singh Sawhney v. D. Ramarathnam, and Menaka Gandhi v. Union of India — the court held that personal liberty includes international travel. Justice Nanda said denying travel for such a personal event would result in serious injustice, especially when no threat to national security was claimed. The bench also noted that Reddy had been allowed to travel abroad earlier under a similar suspension of the LOC in October 2024.
