Srinagar- The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Srinagar Bench, has taken strong exception to the prolonged denial of pensionary benefits to Mohammad Amin Shah, a retired employee of the Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution (CAPD) Department, calling his four-decade legal struggle “agonizing and deeply distressing.”

Shah was placed under suspension in 1982 and subsequently faced criminal proceedings. He was acquitted by the Special Anti-Corruption Court in 1998, a decision later upheld by a Division Bench of the High Court in 2004. Despite the clean acquittal and reinstatement, the department did not regularize his suspension period or release his pension, even as another official in the same case, Abdul Hamid Hajam, secured his pensionary dues long ago.

The Tribunal noted tha

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