Mr. Ajay Tewari, J.: (Oral) - By this petition the petitioner has challenged the order retiring him from service at the age of 58. On the instructions of the petitioner, the second challenge with regard to denial of conveyance allowance is not being pressed by the learned counsel.

2. The undisputed facts are that the petitioner suffered a failed eye operation in the right eye during his service as a result of which his vision in the right eye was lost. Undisputedly the All India Institute of Medical Sciences and Pandit Bhagwati Dayal Sharma Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak have quantified the visual disability of the petitioner at 75%. The precise grouse of the leaned counsel is that he should be allowed to continue till the age of 60 in view of the letter Annexure P-25 addressed by the Chief Secretary to Government of Haryana to the heads of different departments in the State of Haryana. Those instructions read as follows:-

“I am directed to invite your attention to rule 3.26(a) of the Punjab Civil Service Rules Volume-I, Part-I,which inter alia provided for the age of superannuation of Haryana Government Employees as 58 years except in the case of Judic