R. S. Sohane vs State of Madhya Pradesh

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2019 Supreme(SC) 551

L.NAGESWARA RAO, M.R.SHAH
R. S. Sohane – Appellant
Versus
State of Madhya Pradesh – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner:Mr. L.C. Patne, Adv. Ms. Smriti Kumari, Adv. Mrs. Rekha Pandey, AOR Dr. Vinod Kumar Tewari, AOR Mr. Pankaj Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Manindra Dubey, Adv. Mr. Vivek Tiwari, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Tiwari, Adv. Mr. B.N.P. Pathak, Adv. Mr. Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. Adv. Ms. Kaveri Vats, Adv. Mr. D.K. Sinha, Adv. Ms. Pooja Shrivastava, Adv. Mr. Anup Jain, AOR Ms. Pragati Neekhra, AOR Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, Advocate
For the Respondent:Ms. Suman Kukrety, Adv. Mr. V. Sudeer, Adv. Mr. M.B. Ramasubba Raju, Adv. Ms. Megha Khanna, Adv. Mr. Balaji Srinivasan, AOR Mr. Sunil Fernandes, AAG Mr. Rahul Kaushik, AOR Ms. Nupur Kumar, Adv. Mr. Zeeshan Diwan, Adv. Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Sumeer Sodhi, AOR Mr. Arjun Nanda, Adv. Ms. Shreya Nair, Adv. Ms. Pinki Anand, ASG Ms. Niranjana Singh, Adv. Ms. Pooja Dhar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Manoj Ranjan Sinha, Adv. Ms. Rekha Ranjan, Adv. Mr. R.P. Goyal, Adv. Mr. Akshat Shrivastava, AOR Mr. Sarbajit Dutta, Adv. Mr. Ravinder Agarwal, AOR Mr. Shailendra Sharma, Adv. Mr. Arjun Garg, AOR Mr. Sunny Choudhary, AOR Mrs. Swarupama Chaturvedi, Advocate
For the Impleader :Mr. Aman Pandey, Advocate

JUDGMENT :

L. NAGESWARA RAO, J.

Leave granted.

1. The issue that arises in the above Appeals is regarding the entitlement of Teachers working in private aided educational institutions in the State of Madhya Pradesh to the benefit of enhanced age of superannuation of 65 years. For the sake of convenience, we refer to the facts in SLP (C) Nos. 31968-31969 of 2017. The Appellant was appointed as Lecturer in Commerce (later designated as Assistant Professor) on 01.09.1979 pursuant to the recommendations of the Selection Committee constituted under the provisions of Statute No.28 (College Code 28) of the then Indore University (now Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalay, Indore) to PMB, Gujarati College, Indore which is an affiliated College. The said College was receiving 100% grant-in-aid from the State Government.

2. On 02.09.1998, the Madhya Pradesh Shaskiya Sevak (Adhivarshiki Ayu) Second Amendment Act, 1998 amended the provisions of Madhya Pradesh Shaskiya Sevak (Adhivarshiki Ayu) Adhiniyam, 1967 enhancing the age of superannuation of the Government Teachers from 60 to 62 years. Teachers working in the private aided Colleges were also given the benefit of enhancement of the age of superannuation

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2019 Supreme(SC) 551

L.NAGESWARA RAO, M.R.SHAHR. S. Sohane – AppellantVersusState of Madhya Pradesh – Respondent

L.NAGESWARA RAO, M.R.SHAH
R. S. Sohane – Appellant
Versus
State of Madhya Pradesh – Respondent