https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281532 The SC held that retrospective legislation cannot validly extinguish accrued service rights or compel repayment of benefits already lawfully received where it operates arbitrarily or defeats final rights. Sections 2 and 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Educational Service Untrained Teachers Act, 1991 were therefore invalid to the extent they retrospectively disturbed settled pay fixation and recovery of amounts, and the statute could operate only prospectively. The Court also held that service in a higher pay scale, granted for limited administrative purposes, did not by itself satisfy the independent of the automatic advancement scheme. The claim to automatic advancement benefits was rejected. en-us Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:02:35 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281532 The SC held that retrospective legislation cannot validly extinguish accrued service rights or compel repayment of benefits already lawfully received where it operates arbitrarily or defeats final rights. Sections 2 and 3 of the Andhra Pradesh Educational Service Untrained Teachers Act, 1991 were therefore invalid to the extent they retrospectively disturbed settled pay fixation and recovery of amounts, and the statute could operate only prospectively. The Court also held that service in a higher pay scale, granted for limited administrative purposes, did not by itself satisfy the independent of the automatic advancement scheme. The claim to automatic advancement benefits was rejected. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 24 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=281532