The Allahabad High Court, Lucknow, has granted significant pension relief to a large group of U.P. state employees, ruling decisively that service rendered on a daily wage or work-charge basis prior to regularization must be counted as “qualifying service” for pension.

Justice Manish Mathur , in a judgment delivered November 4, 2025, disposing of 78 writ petitions led by Jai Ram Sharma v. State Of U.P. , affirmed that the Supreme Court’s precedent in Prem Singh v. State of U.P. (2019) 10 SCC 516 remains the binding law. The Court found that subsequent state laws, namely the U.P. Qualifying Service for Pension and Validation Act, 2021 (Act of 2021), and the U.P. Entitlement to Pension and Validation Ordinance, 2025 (Ordinance of 2025), failed to validly overrule the Supreme Cour

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