Service Matters- UOI and CANARA Bank directed to pay fine for withholding of Pension.

 Hon'ble High Court Court of Karnataka at Bengaluru in Writ Petition No. 405/23 case of Sri.N.Nagabhushana Rao Vs UOI and Ors has held that 

• "Petitioner would be entitled to all the arrears along with interest, as the Bank has failed to collect Life Certificate from the hands of the petitioner in terms of the guidelines. The Bank ought to have visited the petitioner and collected the Life Certificate and regulated pension......PARA-15.

• Pension, is trite, not a bounty. In a broader significance, it is a measure of socio-economic justice, which inheres economic security, in the fall of life when physical and mental capabilities of a pensioner begins to ebb corresponding the aging process. The raison d’etre for grant of pension is the inability to provide for oneself due to such old age. This can be withheld, curtailed or taken away, only in accordance with law. Ebbing mental prowess and physical incapacity due to age was one of the prime reasons why the certificate could not be submitted in time. This, in the peculiar facts of this case, by no stretch of imagination, can be construed to take away the right of the petitioner for grant of pension, particularly, in the teeth of the guidelines. PARA-16.

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