New Delhi, Aug. 22 -- The Supreme Court has dismissed a retired professor's plea seeking pension benefits under the General Provident Fund (GPF)-cum-Pension Scheme instead of the Contributory Provident Fund (CPF) Scheme under which he had served and received retirement benefits.

The judgment, delivered earlier this week involved K Suman Chandra, a former professor at the National Institute of Rural Development (NIRD). The bench of Justices Ujjal Bhuyan and Atul S Chandurkar upheld the Telangana High Court's decision, which had overturned an earlier ruling of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT).

The case offers an important lesson for employees covered by different retirement benefit schemes: accepting the terms of regularisation a...