Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972 – rr. 13, 14 – High Court directed that the services of the respondent rendered as contractual/casual shall be liable to be counted as temporary service for calculating the qualifying service for pensionary/retiral benefits – Held: High Court materially erred in observing that the contractual service would be qualified as service in a temporary capacity – Service rendered as casual/contractual cannot be said to be service rendered on a substantive appointment – Neither the rule nor the regularisation scheme provide that services rendered as casual/contractual shall be treated as temporary service and/or the same shall be counted for the purposes of pensionary/service benefits – Impugned judgment passed by the High Court is quashed and set aside – Judgment of the Tribunal dismissing the OA filed by the respondent is restored – Service Law.
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