PADHYE J.-Original petitioners in this petition were two: (1) Shankar Jayaram Ambardekar in his individual capacity and (2) Nagpur District Pensioners Association, Nagpur, through its Honorary Secretary Mr. R. N. Gadrc. After the petition was admitted the petitioners were required to give the names of the pensioners of the petitioner No. 2 Association who had retired prior to 1.11-1956, but in spite of several opportunities being given, no names were supplied and the orders passed by this Court from time to time were not complied with. We are, therefore, not required to consider in this petition the case of those pensioners said to have been represented by the petitioner No.2 and the decision of this case will be confined only so far as the petitioner No.1 Shankar Jayara.m Ambardekar is concerned.

2. The petitioner No. 1 in the original petition will hereinafter be described as the petitioner only. The petitioner was employed in the year 1912 as an Overseer in the Agricultural Department as a probationer in the then Central Provinces. He was then transferred as probationer to Hoshangabad and thereafter to Seoni as an Agricultural Assistant and was confirmed as an Agricultu