New Delhi, Oct. 5 -- A government employee who moved from a peon's post to a lower-grade clerk's job in 2007 after being selected through a separate recruitment process has got a fresh opportunity to seek coverage under the Old Pension Scheme (OPS), after the Calcutta High Court found that a technical procedural lapse should not by itself defeat a beneficial pension provision.

In its September 7, 2026 judgment in Shri Erotu Kurma Rao vs Union of India & Others (WP.CT/4/2026), a division bench of Justices Amrita Sinha and Biswaroop Chowdhury set aside the rejection of the employee's claim and the Central Administrative Tribunal's order upholding it. The authorities have been directed to reconsider his claim under a 2023 government Office ...