W.P. No.14915/2011 (S) Abhilash Jain vs. State of M.P. & Ors. 10.12.2011 Shri Wakeel Khan, learned counsel for the petitioner. Shri Arpan J Pawar learned counsel for the respondent, on advance copy. Heard on the question of admission. The petitioner has filed this petition being aggrieved by order dated 3.8.2010 passed by the respondent M.P. Road Transport Corporation, Bhopal, whereby he has been compulsorily retired from service. 2. It is submitted by the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner that in W.P. No. 12645/2010 (S) and connected matters this Court by order dated 26-8-2011 has quashed the orders of compulsorily retirement holding that the Corporation has no power to do so and as the present petition is identical and involve a similar question, it be also allowed in view of the decision of this Court in W.P. No. 12645/2010 (S) and connected matters, decided on 26-8-2011. 3. The learned counsel appearing for the respondent/Corporation, while stating and fairly admitting that the issues involved in the present petition are the same and identical as have been 1 W.P. No.14915/2011 (S) Abhilash Jain vs. State of M.P. & Ors. decided by this Court in W.P.No. 12645/2010 (S) and connected matters, decided on 26-8-2011, further submits that the decision given in the aforesaid petitions as far as it goes on to hold that the action of the Corporation in compulsorily retiring his employees by following the directions issued by the State Government under Section 34 of the Road Transport Corporation Act, 1950 deserves to be reconsidered, more so, in view of the fact that there is no provision either in the Standard Standing Orders Act or in the regulations framed by the respondents providing for compulsory retirement. 4. On a query, being made it is stated by the learned counsel for the respondent Corporation that the Corporation is in the process of filing writ appeals against the orders passed in W.P.No. 12645/2010 (S) and connected matters, decided on 26-8-2011. 5. In view of the aforesaid facts, as the issues involved in the present petition are identical as stated by the learned counsel appearing for the parties and as the respondents are already in the process of filing writ appeals before the Division Bench, the present petition is also allowed in similar 2 W.P. No.14915/2011 (S) Abhilash Jain vs. State of M.P. & Ors. terms of and in accordance with the decision rendered by this Court in W.P.No. 12645/2010 (S) and connected matters, decided on 26-8-2011 for the same reasons mentioned therein which may be read as part of this order. The petition is, accordingly, allowed and as held in the aforementioned decision the petitioner shall be entitled to all consequential benefits except back wages. The petition is finally disposed of in the above terms. C.C as per rules. ( R. S. JHA ) J U D G E mms/- 3