Constitution of India

— Art. 14 — Temporal classification/Cut-off date — Fixation of specific dates (cut-off date) — General principles — Financial burden if a valid consideration — Pensionary benefits — Provision in government notification for notional revision of, with retrospective effect but stipulating the financial benefits thereof to accrue only from the month just preceding the date of issuance of the notification — Making payments for the intervening period would have involved a burden of a huge amount (Rs 2038.34 crores in this case) — In such circumstances, the date fixed for grant of the financial benefits, held, justified and not arbitrary — Hence, Bihar State Government Employees' Revision of Pension, Family Pension and Death-cum-Retirement Gratuity (Validation and Enforcement) Act, 2001 purporting to validate the revision of pension and gratuity in accordance with the Bihar Government Notifications Nos. PCI-Id/S7-1853-F dated 19-4-1990 and PCI0-16/87-1854-F dated 19-4-1990, held, valid, (2006) 5 SCC 65-A

Statute Law

Validating Act

— Making judgments of courts ineffective by — Permissibility — Contention of the State that where the court annulled a provision, a validating Act could render the decision of the court ineffective by retrospectively removing the cause of invalidity of such provision or the basis that had led to that decision, upheld, (2006) 5 SCC 65-B