HARI RAM GUPTA (DEAD) THRU LR. vs STATE OF U P

The Supreme Court addressed the applicability of the Uttar Pradesh Palika (Centralised) Service Retirement Benefit Rules, 1981, determining that the Rules do not have retrospective effect for employees who retired before their enactment. The Court emphasized that pension is a social welfare measure and should not be denied to those who served prior to the Rules' introduction, referencing the precedent set in D.S. Nakara v. Union of India (1983) 1 SCC 305. The appeal was allowed, granting the widow the pension benefits her late husband claimed.