Hyderabad, Nov. 13 -- The Telangana High Court has dismissed a petition filed by former Army and Air Force personnel seeking protection of their last-drawn defence salaries after joining the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) as Social Security Assistants.

The petitioners argued that their initial salaries in EPFO should have been fixed based on the pay they received before retiring from the Armed Forces. However, the High Court ruled that re-employed ex-servicemen do not have an automatic right to receive pay equal to their last defence salary.

A Division Bench of Acting Chief Justice P Sam Koshy and Justice Narsing Rao Nandikonda upheld the decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad Bench, to reject th...