S. C. Sharma, J.:-

The petitioner No. 1 before this Court is a registered association of pensioners registered in the name of Griha Nirman Mandal Adhikari/Karmachari Pensioners' Association and the petitioner No. 2 is the Secretary of petitioner No, 1 Association.

2. The present writ petition has been filed on behalf of all retired employees, who have attained the age of superannuation while serving the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board. The contention of the petitioners is that the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board is a statutory Corporation incorporated under section 3 of Madhya Pradesh Griha Nirman Mandal Adhiniyam, 1972 and is an instrumentality of the State of Madhya Pradesh, It has further been stated that the retired employees of Madhya Pradesh Housing Board were earlier not granted pension and therefore, the employees preferred a writ petition before this Court claiming pension and the same was registered as W. P. No. 1940/93, Chandrakumar and ors. v. M.P. Graha Nirman Mandal and another. The aforesaid writ petition was allowed by an exhaustive order and by the judgment dated 13-9-1995 this Court directed the Madhya Pradesh Housing Board to grant pension and gratuity to its emp