Devendra Kumar Arora, J.

Heard Sri H.G.S.Parihar, Senior Advocate assisted by Mr. Rakesh Kumar Singh for the petitioner and Sri Gopal Kumar Srivastava, appearing for the respondents Bank.

2. Ram chandra Singh-Petitioner has filed instant writ petition inter-alia for quashing the order dated 29.5.2001 [contained in Annexure-7 to the writ petition] whereby petitioner was informed that according to the instructions received from the controlling authority since the petitioner had not completed the prescribed period of service under the Pension and Provident Fund Rules, he was not eligible for pension. The petitioner has also assailed the order dated 18.4.2002 passed on the representation of the petitioner whereby it was informed that in terms of the instructions contained in O.M. No.28/24/94-P &PW(B) dated 30.5.1995, the petitioner was not entitled for reckoning the period of service rendered by him in the Armed Forces towards pensionable service.

3. Brief facts of the case as culled out from the pleadings of writ petition, are that the petitioner-Ram Chandra Singh is a retired ex-servicemen and upon retirement from Armed Forces, he was re-employed in State Bank Of India at its