ORDER

C.A. Nos. 4159 and 4158 of 1996 (Arising out of SLP (C) Nos. 3843/86 & 4988/85)

Special leave granted.

C.A. No. 4126/85 :

Learned counsel for the appellant states that the respondent in this appeal has died and he has instructions to withdraw this appeal. This appeal is dismissed as withdrawn.

2. This is a batch of appeals arising from judgments and orders of the High Court of Madras. The principal judgment of the High Court was delivered by a Full Bench and that is the subject matter of C.A. No. 352/85. In the other matters the Full Bench judgment was followed.

3. The respondent in each of these appeals was an employee of the appellant, State of Tamil Nadu. He was compulsorily retired from service in the public interest after he had attained the age of 50 years. He challenged the order of retirement on the ground that the provisions of the rule and the directions of the State Government applicable to compulsory retirement had not been followed. The Full Bench came to the conclusion that the case of the respondent had to be upheld and he was reinstated or treated as reinstated, as the case might be, with consequential benefits.

4. The rule in question is Fundamental Rule 56(d), whic