Beneficial scheme cannot run contrary to express terms of provisions

Union of India Vs Abhiram Verma (Supreme Court of India) Conclusion: In present facts of the case, the Hon’ble Apex court while allowing the Appeal have made distinction between ‘resignation’ and ‘voluntary retirement’ and have held that having tendered the ‘resignation’, the respondent has to suffer the consequences and now cannot be permitted to take ‘U’ turn and say that what the respondent wanted was ‘premature retirement’ and not ‘resignation’. It was also observed that while pension schemes do form beneficial legislation i...