CUTTACK: The Orissa high court has ruled that the amendments brought to the Orissa Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1992 in 2005 cannot have retrospective effect.
"It is crystal clear that the statutes or rules dealing with substantive rights is prima facie/generally perspective unless it is expressly or by necessary implications made to have retrospective operation," the single judge bench of Justice S K Panigrahi observed on Friday.
The ruling came on a batch of petitions filed by junior lecturers of various districts, in Class-II of Odisha Education Service (OES), who were continuing in service when the amended Odisha Civil Service (Pension) Rules, 1992 was notified on September 17, 2005.
