https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187039 The SC held that a court cannot invalidate a policy relaxation on grounds not pleaded where the challenge is confined to its application, not its validity. It further upheld the Government's relaxation dispensing with postgraduate qualification for teachers with 18 years' service, treating long experience as a rational policy basis for granting selection-scale benefits. The High Court had therefore gone beyond the pleadings in testing the circular itself. The appeal succeeded, the High Court's order was set aside, and the administrative order rejecting the teacher's claim was restored, with amounts already paid protected from recovery. en-us Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 07 Oct 2016 12:27:01 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187039 The SC held that a court cannot invalidate a policy relaxation on grounds not pleaded where the challenge is confined to its application, not its validity. It further upheld the Government's relaxation dispensing with postgraduate qualification for teachers with 18 years' service, treating long experience as a rational policy basis for granting selection-scale benefits. The High Court had therefore gone beyond the pleadings in testing the circular itself. The appeal succeeded, the High Court's order was set aside, and the administrative order rejecting the teacher's claim was restored, with amounts already paid protected from recovery. Case-Laws Indian Laws Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=187039