Judgment

SHELAT, AG. C. J.:- The appellant was in 1934 first appointed as a police constable in the erstwhile State of Gwalior and was promoted in March 1945 to the post of a Sub-Inspector. In May 1948, the rulers of Gwalior, Indore and certain other States formed, under a covenant executed by them, a new State, called the United State of Madhya Bharat. The appellant was allowed to work as a Sub-Inspector in the new State of Madhya Bharat, but his name was entered from the very beginning, that is from May 1948, in the list of "provisionally absorbed Servants" and remained so during all material times.

2. By a notification, dated December 15, 1948, the Madhya Bharat Government published rules, called the "Retrenchment Terms". As revised by another notification dated July 9, 1949, these Retrenchment Terms so far as they are relevant for the purposes of appeal read as under:

Government of the United State of Madhya Bharat.

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NOTIFICATION

After a careful consideration of the T. Mohan Rau Committee s recommendations regarding the retrenchment of surplus staff of the acceding States of the Madhya Bharat Union and compensation terms to be offered to such staff, the Government of Madhya Bh