Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 123 · Decided 4 May 1970
State of Assam & ORS. v. Premadhar Baruah & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 123 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 503
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1334/1969
- Decided
- 4 May 1970
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, I.D. DUA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 309
Headnote
Cons1itution of Indi<1, Art. 14-0rdtr r"lsi11g t1R• of superanmwtio11- Di.vcrerlon with appointing authority to r~tire wl1J1out assigning rea&on­ Jf discriminator)'. Under Fundamental Rule S6(a) a Government servant superaqnualcs on the date he attains the age of SS years, but In 1963, the appellant-State issued a memorandum stating its decision that the age ot compulsory retirement of the State Government servants was to be 58 years, and the appointing authority was also empowered to retire the Gov­ ernment servant after he attained the age of 55 years on 3
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