IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.6438 of 2008 Date of decision: 9th November, 2010 Bhupinder Kaur … Petitioner Versus Union of India and others … Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA Present: None for the petitioner. Mrs. Kulwant Kaur Kahlon, Senior Standing Counsel for Union of India for respondent No.1. None for respondents No.2 to 4. KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA, J. (ORAL) Petitioner was posted as a Lecturer in Home Science with respondent No.4-Guru Gobind Singh College for Women, Sector 26, Chandigarh. She was to retire on 30th April, 2008 on completion of 60 years of age. A prayer has been made in the present writ petition that respondent No.4 be directed to permit the petitioner to continue in service till the age of 62 years, because as per the policy of Government of India a Lecturer teaching in a College is to retire at the age of 62 years. This matter has been conclusively resolved by a Division Bench of this Court in its judgment rendered in Civil Writ Petition No.8025 of 2007 titled as ‘Dr. A.C.Julka and others v. Panjab University and others’ decided on 31st October, 2008. The Division Bench dismissed various writ petitions, in which a similar prayer was made, by observing as under: Civil Writ Petition No.6438 of 2008 “We thus find ourselves unable to agree with the submissions of the petitioners and do not find it a fit case for quashing the order dated 23rd July, 2002, Annexure P-13 or to issue a mandamus to direct the respondents to allow the petitioners to continue upto the age of 62 years, in view of the reasons enumerated in the foregoing paragraphs. For the same reasons, the plea of the non-teaching staff for enhancement in age of retirement is untenable and is rejected. The prayer in certain petitions for increasing the age of retirement from 62 to 65 years thus automatically goes. All these writ petitions are, therefore, dismissed.” This Court is bound to follow the judgment rendered by a Division Bench of this Court in Dr. A.C.Julka’s case (supra). Hence, the present petition is dismissed. [KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA] JUDGE November 9, 2010 rps 2