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PANAJI: The High Court of Bombay in Goa ordered the State government to pay pension benefits, including arrears, to former State Chief Information Commissioner (SCIC) Prashant S P Tendolkar. The Supreme Court of India has stayed this ruling.
The Supreme Court Bench, which included Justices J K Maheshwari and Aravind Kumar, accepted the Goa government’s special leave petition (SLP) and excused the delay. The respondents received letters from the court that they had six weeks to return.
The State government was ordered by the High Court to determine Tendolkar’s pension benefits and pay the arrears within three months of the order’s date on August 1, 2024.
Both as the State Chief Information Commissioner and as the Additional President of the Administrative Tribunal of Goa, Panjim, the administration has maintained that Tendolkar was never in pensionable service.
Former Congress president Girish Chodankar accused Tendolkar of “falsely” claiming pension benefits in a complaint he submitted with Chief Secretary Dr. V Candavelou, IAS, which alerted the government. The former president of Congress demanded in his complaint that the ruling of the High Court be reviewed.
