JUDGMENT - B. LENTIN, J.:---The services of an employee, be he permanent or temporary, cannot be terminated with retrospective effect. Such is the ratio of this judgment.

2. On June 7, 1980 the petitioner, a project displaced person, was appointed as a Mustering Assistant in the Work Charge Establishment at a monthly salary of Rs. 200/-. Thereafter he worked continuously without break in service till March 1986, when by a letter of termination dated March 11, 1986 his services were retrospectively terminated with effect from March 1,1986. Hence this writ petition.

3. The petitioner's learned Counsel Miss Purohit is perfectly justified in making a grievance that it is unthinkable that an employee's services can be terminated with retrospective effect, as done in the present case. We joint learned Counsel in her astonishment. For that matter, one of the conditions in the letter of appointment is that if the petitioner desired to resign he was liable to pay one month's salary or give one month's notice. It is therefore ironical that on the other hand, the petitioner's services were terminated with retrospective effect.

4. However, the respondent's learned Counsel Mr. Bhatkar ventures th

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