The petitioner was appointed as a Nurse in the Naval Family Clinic, Nausena Baugh, Visakhapatnam, in the year 1973 on a consolidated honorarium of Rs.300/- per month. By way of this writ petition, she initially challenged the proceedings dated 29.09.1999, whereby the naval authorities rejected her request for absorption into regular service. She also sought a consequential direction to treat her as a regular Staff Nurse with effect from the date of her initial appointment by extending to her pay scale and other benefits on par with regular Staff Nurses of the department.

During the pendency of this writ petition, the petitioner was terminated from service under proceedings dated 27.06.2009 on ‘age ground’, long after she attained the age of superannuation in August, 2008. At that time, her salary was Rs.2,300/- per month.

By way of an amendment to her prayer in this writ petition, effected after her termination from service, the petitioner sought a further direction to extend to her benefits under the Automatic Career Progression Scheme; differential salary for the post superannuation period; all terminal benefits, including pension and gratuity, along with interest on