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Date or directions COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS

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WPSS No. 2525 of 2024

With

WPSS No. 419 of 2023 WPSS No. 522 of 2023

WPSS No. 2191 of 2023 WPSS No. 2342 of 2023

WPSS No. 189 of 2024 WPSS No. 874 of 2024

Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J

1. Mr. Ghanshyam Joshi & Mr. Suhal A.

Siddiqui, Advocates for the petitioners.

2. Mr. Ganesh Kandpal, learned Deputy Advocate General for the State of

Uttarakhand.

3. Mr. Shubhang Dobhal & Mr. S.S. Lingwal, Advocates for the respondent-

University.

4. Since common questions of fact and law are involved in these petitions, therefore, these petitions are clubbed together and decided by this common judgment. However, for the sake of brevity and convenience, facts of WPSS No. 2525 of 2024 alone are being

considered and discussed.

5. Petitioner was a non-teaching employee of Govind Ballabh Pant Agriculture and Technology University, who retired from the post of Junior Engineer, on 31.01.2002; gratuity has been denied to him only on the ground that he had opted to retire at the age of

60 years.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that although initially, there were two categories of em