JUDGMENT

M. Jagannadha Rao, J.-This appeal has been preferred against the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Petition No. 12751 of 1988 dated 28-4-1989 by which a Division Bench of the High Court dismissed the writ petition filed by the appellant. The question that falls for consideration in this appeal is whether the appellant is entitled to be continued in service of the A.P. Agricultural University as a Director of Physical Education till he completed 60 years or whether he was liable to superannuate after completion of 58 years?

2. The brief facts of the case are as follows:

The appellant was initially employed as Physical Director in the Bapatla Agricultural College which is a Government college, w.e.f. 4th August 1956. The Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University was formed under Andhra Pradesh Act 24 of 1963 (hereinafter called the act) and the abovesaid college stood transferred to the said University by virtue of Section 43 of the said Act w.e.f. 4th May, 1964. The services of the appellant, therefor, stood transferred to the Agricultural University accordingly and the appellant continued to work as Physical Director in the said University. When the appellant was