JUDGMENT

Shah, J.-Leave granted.

2. This appeal has been filed by the Meghalaya State Electricity Board ( MSEB for short), a board duly constituted under Section 5 of the Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948, (hereinafter referred to as the Electricity Act") challenging the judgment and order dated 22.7.1999 passed by the Division Bench of High Court of Gauhati, Bench at Shillong in Writ Appeal No. 19 (SH) of 1998. By the impugned judgment, the High Court set aside the judgment of learned Single Judge dismissing the writ petition filed by the respondent employee challenging an order dated 24.7.1997 of compulsory retirement from service. The learned Single Judge dismissed the writ petition filed by the respondents by order dated 10.8.1998 by holding that the MSEB had not framed any regulations regulating the service conditions of its employees and had instead adopted the Assam State Electricity Board (General Conditions of Service) Regulations, 1960 by passing a resolution on 17.5.1975. Similarly, it was also open to the Board to adopt the provisions of FR 57(b) of the Meghalaya Fundamental Rules for compulsory retirement by passing resolution. He further held that it was clear in the Of