1998 (8) TMI 648

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....the teachers of Bhagalpur Engineering College, Bhagalpur, Muzaffarpur Institute of Technology, Muzaffarpur and Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, praying, inter alia, that their age of retirement should be the same as the age of retirement of teachers in Bihar College of Engineering, Patna. They had also prayed for the same pay scales and had claimed arrears in the UGC scale from 1-1-1973 to 3....

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....years. 4. Bihar Engineering College, Patna is a college of University of Patna. The teachers in Bihar Engineering College being university teachers are recruited through the University Service Commission, Their service conditions are governed under the Patna University Act. At the relevant time the age of retirement for university teachers was 62 years. However, with effect from 15-8-1992 the a....

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....different from the age of superannuation for all other government servants governed by the Bihar Service Code. The High Court ought not to have equated the service conditions in the three State colleges with the service conditions in a University college. Application of Article 14, in these circumstances, is misconceived, when there are valid criteria for differentiating between the service condit....