JUDGMENT :

A.S. Supehia, J.

1. The present writ petition has been filed by the petitioner for seeking directions to the respondent authority to grant the gratuity and other retirement benefits to the petitioner and also seeking a prayer to regularize the suspension period from 31.05.1988 to 07.07.1995. The petitioner has also prayed for higher pay-scales w.e.f. 01.06.1987 and 01.06.1996, in view of the Government Resolution dated 16.08.1994.

2. The petitioner was initially appointed as a Field Assistant in the Dabka P.T.C. College on 14.06.1969 and he has retired as Assistant Professor from the Government Ladies School after attaining the age of superannuation on 31.05.2006. When the petitioner was serving at the office of District Education office, Vadodara at that time an FIR came to be registered against him for the offences punishable under Section 161 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 and Sections 5(1)(c) and 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption of Act 1947. For the said offence, the petitioner was tried before the Special Judge, Vadodara in ACB Case No. 8/1992 and by way of judgment and order dated 30.11.2009 passed below Exh. 59, the petitioner was acquitted.

3. Thereafter, the Sta