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Supreme Court Turns Down Manโ€™s Plea Seeking To Be President Of India

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The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a manโ€™s plea seeking to be appointed as the President of India and asked the Registry not to entertain his further petition on the issue in future.

New Delhi:  The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a manโ€™s plea seeking to be appointed as the President of India and asked the Registry not to entertain his further petition on the issue in future.

A bench of justices DY Chandrachud and Hima Kohli said that the petition is โ€˜frivolousโ€™ and an abuse of the process of the Court. The top court also said that the petition was โ€œscurrilousโ€.

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The court had turned down the plea filed by Kishore Jagannath Sawant and directed the
Registry not to entertain his further petition on similar issues in the near future.

The court also directed the registry to expunge โ€œscurrilousโ€ remarks made by Sawant from the record.

Sawant, the appeared petitioner-in-person, alleged that he was not allowed to contest the recent Presidential polls.

Claiming to be an environmentalist, he also said that he will work for all the โ€œmessy situationsโ€ of the world.

The apex court in the hearing said that he can deliver speeches on the basis of his specialised knowledge as he is an environmentalist but filing the petitions in such a way is not the way.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by HW News staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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Punjab Restores Old Pension Scheme, Fourth State To Do So

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Faced with several demands from government employees, the Punjab government on Friday took a decision to restore the Old Pension Scheme.

Chandigarh:  Faced with several demands from government employees, the Punjab government on Friday took a decision to restore the Old Pension Scheme.

The state cabinet took the decision, Chief Minister Bhagwant Maan tweeted. โ€œToday, in the Punjab cabinet meeting, a historic decision has been taken for its employeesโ€ฆyour government is going to restore the old pension schemeโ€ฆthe cabinet has given in-principle approval to this decisionโ€ฆWe stand by our employeesโ€ฆpromised..deliveredโ€ฆ

What we say, we do,โ€ Mann tweeted. Earlier, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand too went back to the Old Pension Scheme and quashed the new pension scheme.

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Under the old pension scheme, a government employee is entitled to a monthly pension after retirement. The monthly pension is typically half of the last drawn salary of the person.

Under the new pension scheme, employees contribute a portion of their salaries to the pension fund. Based on that, they are entitled to a one-time lump sum amount on superannuation.

For the record, the old pension scheme was discontinued in December 2003, and the new pension scheme came into effect on April 1, 2004.

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