JUDGMENT

K.B. Asthana, J. - The plaintiff appellant Smt. Kamla Jaiswal was serving in the year 1969 as Assistant Attendance Officer in the Education Department of the Nagar Mahapalika of Allahabad. She had joined service in the then Municipal Board of Allahabad as an English teacher in the year 1932 or 1933. When she was originally employed she was only a certificate holder of passing Vernacular Final Examination. In 1935 she passed the Admission Examination of the Banaras Hindu University which is recognised as equivalent to the High School Examination of the U.P. Board of High School and Intermediate Education. She was then promoted and it appears she passed further higher examinations and obtained Matter's Degree of the University and eventually came to occupy comparatively senior posts in the department. By a letter dated 10-4-1969 received by her on 11-4-1969 she was informed that having attained the age of superannuation she was retired from service. She protested and made representations to the appropriate authorities of the Mahapalika bringing to their notice that according to the date of birth entered in her Admission Examination certificate as 6-4-1915 she was entitled to