RAJESHWAR PD.VERMA Vs. VINOBA BHAVE UNIVERSITY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SINCE the issues involved in all these writ petitions are common, they are heard together and with the consent of the counsel for the parties, are being disposed of by this order at the stage of admission itself.

(2.) CHALLENGE in these writ petitions is to the order dated 29.11.2007 passed by the respondent - Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh whereby the claim of the petitioners for payment of their annual increment from 1.1.1996 till the date of their respective retirement, has been rejected.

(3.) THE colleges in which the petitioners were employed, came subsequently within the jurisdiction of Vinoba Bhave University, Hazaribagh. The petitioners continued teaching in their respective departments of the concerned colleges. All the petitioners, except Sri Purushottam Dubey, (petitioner in WPS No. 1477 of 2008) who retired from service on 31.1.2003, the rest of the petitioners had retired from service in between January, 1998 to October, 2000.