'Pay Minus Pension' Can't Be Recovered Retrospectively From Retired Doctors Due to AIIMS Jodhpur's Negligence: Rajasthan High Court

The Rajasthan High Court has partly allowed and partly dismissed a batch of petitions related to the imposition of the “pay minus pension” rule on re-employed doctors at AIIMS Jodhpur. The Court held that although the petitioners are to be treated as re-employed under the Central Civil Services (Fixation of Pay of Re-employed Pensioners) Orders, 1986, the rule cannot be applied retrospectively, five years after their appointments, due to the…