Supreme Court of India

Navin Chandra Dhoundiyal v. State of Uttarakhand and Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 7 S.C.R. 572
Bench Uday Umesh Lalit and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 16 October 2020

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, the impugned judgment and orders of the High Court are set aside.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Service Law: Appellants were working as Professors in various disciplines in the respondent Kumaun University – T hey were aggrieved by office order dated 21.12.2019 which se t out their respective dates of retirement (which were the last dates in the months they attained the age of superannuation) – Appellan ts placed reliance on Statute no.16.24 of the University, applic able to them contending that they were entitled to continue beyond the last da te of month in which each of them attained the age of superannuat ion till the “30 th of June following” in terms of that provision – Held : On

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