The association said pensioners belonging to the same class cannot be discriminated against merely based on their date of retirement. The HC posted it for hearing along with other pending cases on the issue in January next year.

The plea challenges the constitutionality of Part IV of the Finance Act, 2025, which seeks to introduce the 'Validation of the Central Civil Services Rules and Principles for Expenditure on Pension Liabilities from the Consolidated Fund of India', and said that due to this, same class of officers would be treated differently.

Besides the ministries of finance, home and law, the plea has also made the Department of Pension and Pensioners’ Welfare, and the Department of Personnel and Training as parties in the case. It also sought a direction to the ministry concerned to pay an interest at the rate of 12 per cent per annum to the petitioners on the delayed payment of pensionary benefits to them from the date the said amounts became due till the date of actual payment, the plea said.