They maintain that their pension is number liable to be reduced by recovery of pension equivalent of gratuity out of it they have asked for a declaration that the ceiling on the qualifying service in the case of service record optees should be 30 years instead of 33 years, particularly in respect of persons who retired at the age of 55 years they have also asked for a direction for recomputation of their pension after the aforesaid reliefs have been granted.
These writ petitions under Article 32 of the Constitution are by three retired defence personnel.
