In Brief
The Supreme Court upheld a High Court judgment striking down a government circular that allowed medically unfit or invalidated employees to continue working beyond retirement age, particularly if their dependents were also medically unfit. The Court found the scheme violated constitutional equality guarantees (Articles 14 and 16) because it was designed not to genuinely assist disabled employees but to enable them to hand over government jobs to family members. Such preferential succession schemes offend equal opportunity principles in public employment and fail established legal tests for medical disability-based benefits.
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