Plea to scrap perks of ex-legislators

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre, secretaries of Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, Election Commission and attorneygeneral on apetition filed by NGO, Lok Prahari, challenging pension and allowances given to former legislators. A bench headed by Justice J. Chelameswar issued notice on the appeal against a judgment of the Allahabad high court rejecting the NGO’s plea to scrap such pension and allowances to former legislators. Counsel Kamini Jaiswal, drew the court’s attention to the fact that there were no guidelines enumerated for such allowances. She pointed out that a government employee has to contribute to the pension fund for availing the post-retirement benefits.

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