The Supreme Court on Monday said the Centre is duty-bound to comply with its 2022 order on the payment of One Rank One Pension arrears to ex-service personnel, and asked it to pay dues for 2019-2022 worth Rs 28,000 crore to them by February 28 next year.

A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and comprising justices P S Narasimha and J B Pardiwala provided a time schedule to the Ministry of Defence to pay the arrears to different groups of pensioners.