Patna HC

Casual labourers in government entitled to pension: SC

Observing that pension is not a "bounty but an enforceable constitutional right" and a hard-earned benefit amassed by an employee by virtue of long and continuous service, the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a temporary casual labourer in a govt department would be entitled to pensionary benefits on superannuation even in the absence of regularisation of the job. It took a widow from Bihar, whose husband worked as a casual worker in a post office for three decades, to fight an 18-year...