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The Supreme Court today dismissed a PIL challenging the perks, including pension and travel allowances, given to former parliamentarians.

The judgement came on a plea of an NGO, which had approached the apex court challenging the Allahabad High Court order dismissing its plea that pension and other perks being given to MPs even after demitting office were contrary to Article 14 of the Constitution guaranteeing the right to equality.

The bench of Justices J Chelameswar and Sanjay Kishan Kaul agreed with the finding of the Allahabad High Court that Parliament is competent to legislate on pensions for ex-­MPs and it has the power to prescribe any condition subject to which the pension may be paid.

The apex court, however, left it to Parliament to decide whether the various benefits given to the lawmakers was rational or not, having regard to the affluent financial status of some of the MPs or the poverty of the millions of people.

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