No 100% Pension Parity With Army For Pre-2009 Special Frontier Force Personnel: Delhi High Court

The Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition seeking 100% pension parity with the Indian Army for Special Frontier Force personnel who retired before January 1, 2009.

The Court held that such retirees are only entitled to restoration of 45% of the commuted value of the pension, in line with earlier directions. 

It clarified that its 2016 judgment had struck down the cut-off date as arbitrary but did not grant full pension parity.

The Court observed that granting full parity would create inequality between pre-2009 retirees, who had already received lump-sum commutation benefits, and post-2009 retirees who did not receive such payments.

[Ex-Servicemen Welfare Union v. UOI & Ors.]