Anomaly in pension benefits for HC judges from bar will go

The Union Cabinet today removed anomalies in pensionary benefits of high court judges elevated from the bar, thereby implementing an order of the Supreme Court.

For pensionary benefits, ten years practice as advocate will be added as qualifying service for High Court judges elevated from the bar, as ordered by the Supreme Court in a judgment in March last year.

The Cabinet decision today seeks to give effect to this judgment.

"We have accepted the order of the Supreme Court in toto," highly-placed sources said after the Cabinet meeting.