IN THE HIGH COURT OF HIMACHAL PRADESH, SHIMLA. CWP No. 2813 of 2010 Decided on: December 29, 2010. Des Raj. ….Petitioner Versus Himachal Pradesh Art, Culture and Language Academy & another. ….Respondents. Coram The Hon’ble Mr. Justice Kurian Joseph, Chief Justice The Hon’ble Mr. Justice V.K. Sharma, Judge. For the petitioner: Mr. B.S. Ranjan, Advocate. For the Respondents: Mr. R.K. Bawa, A.G. with Mr. J.K. Verma, Dy. A.G. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Justice Kurian Joseph, C.J. (Oral) The petitioner approached this Court with certain grievances regarding superannuation. In the reply at paragraph 8, it is stated as follows:- “8. It is admitted that the petitioner was deputed on secondment basis to the Chamba O/o Respondent No. 2 and employees of Respondent No.2 have their retirement age as 58 and 60 in the case of Class-III and Class-IV categories respectively of their own employees. But on 21.12.2004 a proposal was submitted to the then Hon’ble Chief Minister being Chairman of Academy to reduce the retirement age from 62 to 60 years of Academy’s employees and the same was approved. Thereafter, the matter was placed before the Executive Council on 28.05.2005 and in the meeting it was decided to place the matter in the next meeting of the General Council.” 2. The writ petition is disposed in terms of the reply as extracted above . Copy Dasti. (Justice Kurian Joseph), Chief Justice. December 29, 2010. ( Justice V.K. Sharma ), (karan) Judge.