Case Law Analysis
|Supreme Court of India
Article 14 | Differential DA and DR Rates for Serving Employees vs. Pensioners Violate Equality: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that paying higher dearness allowance to serving employees than dearness relief to pensioners, despite both compensating for the same inflation, constitutes arbitrary classification under Article 14. This landmark decision mandates uniform inflation adjustment for all public sector beneficiaries, impacting millions of pensioners across state and central governments.