SANTOSH KUMAR BANERJEE Vs. RAJASTHAN STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner who had been appointed as a helper in the Electric and Mechanical Department in the year 1949, was absorbed in the Rajasthan State electricity Board as Helper where he worked up-till the year 1990 and he was retired from the services of the Board after attaining the age of 58 year taking his date of birth as 15th June 1931. THE petitioner felt seriously aggrieved of the order his retirement and therefore raised a dispute that his date of birth was recorded in the service book as 12th November 1940 due to which he had not attained the age of superannuation in the year 1990 and 8 years of service was still left to the credit of the petitioner. THE petitioner after having retired from service and after availing all the retiral benefits, filed this writ petition challenging the order dated 5. 7. 90 as also the consequential orders due to which the petitioner could not have been given retiral benefit after his superannuation on 5. 7. 90.

(2.) THE only controversy that arises in this petition is whether the petitioner's date of birth was correctly recorded in the service book as 12th November 1940 or his date of birth was 15th June 1931.