The Supreme Court on Monday sought responses from various Union ministries, including finance, home and law, on a plea filed by the Forum of Retired Indian Police Service Officers challenging the legality of a new pension validation clause introduced in the Finance Act in 2025.
Referring to earlier verdicts, the association said the pensioners belonging to the same class cannot be discriminated against merely based on their date of retirement.
A bench comprising Justices K V Viswanathan and Prasanna B Varale took note of the plea filed by the Forum of Retired Indian Police Service Officers (FRIPSO) through lawyer Alabhya Dhamija, and posted it for hearing along with other pending cases on the issue in January next year.
The plea challenges the constitutionality of Part IV of the Finance Act, 2025, which seeks to introduce the ‘Validation of the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules and Principles for Expenditure on Pension Liabilities from the Consolidated Fund of India’, and said that due to this, same class of officers would be treated differently.