ORDER :

M.S. Ramachandra Rao, J.

These cases highlight the travails of former employees of the erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Housing Board (for short ‘APHB’) and their widows/legal heirs with regard to settlement of pension and other pensionary benefits after bifurcation of the erstwhile composite State of Andhra Pradesh into the separate new State of Telangana and the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh w.e.f. 02-06-2014.

2. The composite State of Andhra Pradesh had enacted the APHB Act, 1956 to make schemes and carry on works for the purpose of dealing with and satisfying the need of housing accommodation in the said State. Under Sec.3 of the said Act, by notification, the APHB was created as a body corporate having perpetual succession and a common seal competent to acquire and hold both moveable and immoveable property.

3. One of the service benefits allowed to the employees of the APHB who retire on superannuation was Pension.

4. The composite State of Andhra Pradesh was bifurcated into the new State of Telangana and the residuary State of Andhra Pradesh under the A.P. Reorganisation