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The Constitution of India in English 2026: page 207

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176                   THE CONSTITUTION OF INDIA
                 (Part XIV.—Services under the Union and the States)

             (b) vary or revoke, whether prospectively or retrospectively, the
      conditions of service as respects pension of persons who, having been
      appointed by the Secretary of State or Secretary of State in Council to a
      civil service of the Crown in India before the commencement of this
      Constitution, retired or otherwise ceased to be in service at any time
      before the commencement of the Constitution (Twenty-eighth
      Amendment) Act, 1972:
        Provided that in the case of any such person who is holding or has held
the office of the Chief Justice or other Judge of the Supreme Court or a High
Court, the Comptroller and Auditor-General of India, the Chairman or other
member of the Union or a State Public Service Commission or the Chief
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Election Commissioner, nothing in sub-clause (a) or sub-clause (b) shall be
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construed as empowering Parliament to vary or revoke, after his appointment
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to such post, the conditions of his service to his disadvantage except in so far as
such conditions of service are applicable to him by reason of his being a
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person appointed by the Secretary of State or Secretary of State in Council to a
civil service of the Crown in India.
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        (2) Except to the extent provided for by Parliament by law under this
article, nothing in this article shall affect the power of any Legislature or other
authority under any other provision of this Constitution to regulate the
conditions of service of persons referred to in clause (1).
      (3) Neither the Supreme Court nor any other court shall have jurisdiction in—
             (a) any dispute arising out of any provision of, or any
      endorsement on, any covenant, agreement or other similar instrument
      which was entered into or executed by any person referred to in
      clause (1), or arising out of any letter issued to such person, in relation to
      his appointment to any civil service of the Crown in India or his
      continuance in service under the Government of the Dominion of India
      or a Province thereof;
            (b) any dispute in respect of any right, liability or obligation
      under article 314 as originally enacted.
      (4) The provisions of this article shall have effect notwithstanding
anything in article 314 as originally enacted or in any other provision of this
Constitution.]

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