Devan Ramachandran, J.

1. The innate facet in these appeals for our consideration is, in fact, confined to very narrow environ, namely, whether the prior service of the writ petitioners/appellants served by them in aided private colleges would deserve to be reckoned and taken into account while determining their pensionary benefits consequent to their superannuation/retirement from Government colleges, which they joined after serving the private aided colleges.

2. The learned Single Judge, after taking careful stock of all the facts presented before her has concluded against the contentions of the petitioners and has found that since there are specific statutory prescriptions in the Kerala Service Rules (hereinafter referred to as 'KSR'), which go to impose conditions while construing such service, no relief can be granted contrary to such statutorily ingrained terms.

3. The learned Single Judge, of course, has, in the judgments impugned, noticed and adhered to the provisions of Rule 14 E, Part III of the KSR, and since an effective exposition on the issues herein twirl on the interpretation to be adopted to this Rule, we deem it appropriate to extract Rule 14 E of the KSR a