Supreme Court of India

State of Tamil Nadu & Ors. v. M. N. Sundarajan

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Reported as [1981] 1 S.C.R. 471
Bench R.S. Sarkaria J.
Decided 19 August 1980

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we allow this appeal, set aside _the order c -of the High Court, and uphold the order of the respondent's compulsory H retirement.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

dated June 27, 1973, provided that ill all matters relating to appointments, transfers, postings punishments and drawal of pay, they continued to be treated as non-gazetted Government servants until further orders. The respondent was recruited as a Clerk in the Indian Army in the year 1943 ·and after demobilization was appointed in the Revenue Secretariat of the State Government (Appellant) from March 1948. He was promoted as Section Officer in April 1969 and he continued in the post till March 2, 1976 when he was compulsorily retired from service under Fundamental Rule 56(d). The respondent

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