Two former judges on Thursday moved the High Court questioning the failure of the Union government to amend the High Court Judges (Salary and Conditions) Act to give pension benefit also to retired judges, who had served for less than seven years as judges of a High Court in terms of the 2014 verdict of the Supreme Court.
K. Jagannatha Shetty and T. Jayarama Chouta, both former judges of the High Court, in their petition also complained that the Karnataka government too failed to honour the direction of the apex court to evolve a scheme for retired judges on the lines of Andhra Pradesh.
Justice B.V. Nagarathna, before whom the petition came up for hearing, ordered issue of notices to both Union and State governments.
