JUDGMENT

Dr. B.R. Sarangi, J. - W.P.(C) No.7460 of 2019, in which the petitioner is working as a Senior Stenographer in the office of the OISIP, JICA, has been filed seeking following reliefs:-

".........(i) To quash the impugned notice of retirement dated 29.03.2019 issued by the opposite party no.4 vide Annexure-14.

(ii) To direct the opposite parties more particularly the opposite partyno.1 to allow the petitioner to continue till attainment of 60 years at par with the State Government employees in view of the provisions of Section 71(a) of the Orissa Service Code read with Clause-12 read with Clause-12 of the Orissa Water Supply and Sewerage Board Regulation, 1992.

(iii) To direct the opposite parties to grant all service and consequential benefits to the petitioner."

Similarly, W.P.(C) No.7461 of 2019, the petitioner of which is working as a receptionist in the office of the Orissa Water Supply and Sewerage Board, has been filed seeking following reliefs:-

"....... (i) To direct the opposite parties more particularly the opposite partyno.1 to allow the petitioner to continue till attainment of 60 years at par with the State Government employees in view of the provisions of Section