Starpayal Natarajan Iyer vs State Of Gujarat - Service Law - Pension

Pension - Payment of pension is not a bounty but a recurring occurrence- Reiterated D.S. Nakara and Ors. Vs. Union of India: (1983) 1 SCC 305: AIR 1983 SC 130: (i) that pension is neither a bounty nor a matter of grace depending upon the sweet will of the employer and that it creates a vested right subject to 1972 Rules which are statutory in character because they are enacted in exercise of powers conferred by the proviso to Article 309 and clause (5) of Article 148 of the Constitution; (ii) that the pension is not an ex gratia payment but it is a payment for the past service rendered; and (iii) it is a social welfare measure rendering socio-economic justice to those who in the hey-day of their life ceaselessly toiled for the employer on an assurance that in their old age they would not be left in lurch.