LAWS(MPH)-1994-9-53

TARAMATI NANDKISHORE SHARMA Vs. CANTONMENT BOARD

Decided On September 01, 1994
TARAMATI NANDKISHORE SHARMA Appellant
V/S
CANTONMENT BOARD Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS order shall also govern the disposal of connected petitions M. P. No. 1078/93 - Smt. Prabha Rathore v. The Cantonment Board and another; M. P. No. 1365/93 - Mrs. R. Amit v. The Cantonment Board and another; M. P. No. 1015/93 - Smt. Shakuntala Shrivas v. The Cantonment Board; and M. P. No. 1414/94 - Smt. Dulari Jaiswal v. The Cantonment Board and another.

(2.) IN all these petitions, the core question involved is whether petitioners, teachers/lecturers, in school managed by the Cantonment Board, Mhow (Respondent No. 1) are liable to be superannuated at the age of 58 years or whether they are entitled to continue till attainment of the age of 60 or 62 years and alternatively whether the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Lucknow (respondent No. 2) is under obligation to sanction retention in service in terms of Rule 22 (1) of the Cantonment Fund Servants Rules, 1937 (for short, 'rules'), framed under Section 280 of the Cantonment Act, 1924 (for short, 'act') till the attainment of the age of sixty years so as to push the position at par with State Act/rules?

(3.) FACTS first. They lie in a narrow compass and tell the tale in each petition as under