R B DIXIT Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Heard learned Counsel for the parties.

(2.) The controversy in this case is whether the retirement age of an employee of the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur is 60 years or 62 years.

(3.) Learned Counsel for the petitioner Sri Yatindra has invited our attention to a Division Bench decision of this Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 54346 of 2000, Raja Ram Verma v. Union of India, decided on 10.7.2002 vide Annexure 13 to the writ petition. We have carefully perused the aforesaid decision in Raja Ram Verma's case (supra) and we respectfully disagree with the same. Section 13(2) of the Indian Institute of Technology Act, 1961 states