India, May 18 -- The Allahabad High Court has dismissed a plea challenging the legal provisions granting pension and other benefits to former MLAs and MLCs, observing the provisions fall within the legislative domain and cannot be declared unconstitutional merely on the basis of policy disagreement.

The Constitutional scheme does not inhibit the Legislature from enacting provisions relating to pension, allowances, or allied benefits in favour of Members of Legislative Assembly (MLA) and Members of Legislative Council (MLC), including former members, the Lucknow bench of the court said.

A bench of Justices Rajan Roy and AK Chaudhary passed the verdict on a PIL filed by SN Shukla, general secretary of an NGO, Lok Prahari. The bench had co...