{"id":158537,"date":"2010-02-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/dr-smt-madhu-basra-vs-state-of-u-p-others-on-1-february-2010"},"modified":"2017-05-17T19:25:48","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T13:55:48","slug":"dr-smt-madhu-basra-vs-state-of-u-p-others-on-1-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/dr-smt-madhu-basra-vs-state-of-u-p-others-on-1-february-2010","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Smt. Madhu Basra vs State Of U.P. &amp; Others on 1 February, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Allahabad High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Dr. Smt. Madhu Basra vs State Of U.P. &amp; Others on 1 February, 2010<\/div>\n<pre>Court No. - 29\n\nCase :- WRIT - A No. - 4785 of 2010\n\nPetitioner :- Dr. Smt. Madhu Basra\nRespondent :- State Of U.P. &amp; Others\nPetitioner Counsel :- N.K. Tripathi\nRespondent Counsel :- C.S.C.\n\nHon'ble Satya Poot Mehrotra,J.\n<\/pre>\n<p>Hon&#8217;ble Kashi Nath Pandey,J.\n<\/p>\n<p>Heard Sri N.K. Tripathi, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Pankaj<br \/>\nSaxena, learned Standing Counsel appearing for the respondents.<br \/>\nThe learned counsel for the parties are agreed that the controversy involved in<br \/>\nthe present Writ Petition is covered by the earlier decisions of this Court,<br \/>\nreferred to hereinafter in the present Judgment, and therefore, the present Writ<br \/>\nPetition may be decided at this stage itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>As per the averments made in the Writ Petition, the petitioner is working on<br \/>\nthe post of Reader and Head of the Department in Economics in Naval<br \/>\nKishore Bhartiya Girls P.G. College, Moradabad. The date of birth of the<br \/>\npetitioner is 15.12.1948, and she is to attain the age of superannuation on<br \/>\n14.12.2010, and is due to retire on 30.6.2011 after getting Session benefit.\n<\/p>\n<p>It is, interalia, stated in the Writ Petition that the aforesaid College is affiliated<br \/>\nto Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Rohil Khand University, Bareilly.\n<\/p>\n<p>It appears that initially the petitioner opted for Contributory Provident Fund<br \/>\nScheme (CPF). However, by the Option Letter dated 1.9.2009 (Annexure 9 to<br \/>\nthe Writ Petition), the petitioner sought to change her option from<br \/>\nContributory Provident Fund Scheme (CPF) to General Provident Fund<br \/>\nScheme (GPF) with Pension. The said Option Letter was submitted by the<br \/>\npetitioner pursuant to the Government Order dated 25.8.1999 (Annexure 5 to<br \/>\nthe Writ Petition).\n<\/p>\n<p>It is, interalia, prayed in the Writ Petition that writ, order or direction in the<br \/>\nnature of mandamus be issued directing the respondents to accord the benefit<br \/>\nof GPF plus Pension Scheme to the petitioner in accordance with the<br \/>\nGovernment Order dated 25.8.1999, and various decisions of this Court.\n<\/p>\n<p>                         Facts relevant for deciding the present Writ Petition are as under.\n<\/p>\n<p>                        The State Government from time to time has issued Government Orders<br \/>\n                        permitting the teachers to exercise their options for switching over from<br \/>\n                        Contributory Provident Fund Scheme (CPF) to General Provident Fund<br \/>\n                        Scheme (GPF) with Pension.\n<\/p>\n<p>                        The last such Government Order was issued on 25.8.1999 (Annexure 5 to the<br \/>\n                        Writ Petition) which permitted the teachers to exercise their options before<br \/>\n                        one year of their retirement. However, by the Government Order dated<br \/>\n                        5\/6.5.2000 (Annexure 6 to the Writ Petition), a clarification was issued that<br \/>\n                        option could be exercised only by such teachers, who were governed under<br \/>\n                        the General Provident Fund Scheme and not under the Contributory Provident<br \/>\n                        Fund Scheme.\n<\/p>\n<p>                        It appears that this Court in Civil Misc. Writ Petition NO. 25140 of 2001 (Dr.<br \/>\n                        Shri Gopal Gupta and others Vs. State of U.P and others) considered the<br \/>\n                        aforesaid Government Orders dated 25.8.1999 and 5\/6.5.2000, and held by the<\/p>\n<p>                        Judgment and Order dated 26th October, 2006 as follows:\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;.The policy of the Government providing benefit of GPF plus pension Scheme at no point of<br \/>\ntime denied the benefits to those teachers who had not opted for the said scheme prior to 25th<br \/>\nAugust, 1999 or during the period prescribed either in the Government Order of 1980 or 1982.<br \/>\nSince the scheme remained in existence and time for giving option was extended from time to<br \/>\ntime, the interpretation given by the State to the aforesaid Government order dated 25 th August,<br \/>\n1999 and the clarifications dated 5th June, 2000 and 12th July, 2000 cannot be sustained in the<br \/>\neyes of law.\n<\/p>\n<p>The petitioners who had applied\/opted for GPF plus pension scheme though they were covered<br \/>\nunder the CPF scheme, one year before their date of retirement i.e. during the extended period as<br \/>\nper the Government Order dated 25th August, 1999 could not have been refused the said benefit<br \/>\non the ground that the aforesaid scheme\/option was open only for those teachers who are<br \/>\ncovered by the GPF scheme&#8230;&#8230;..&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>                        Copy of the said Judgment and Order dated 26th October, 2006 has been filed<br \/>\n                        as Annexure 7 to the Writ Petition.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>                        It further appears that the State Government filed a Special Leave Petition<br \/>\n                        before the Supreme Court being Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (Civil)<br \/>\n                        No. 722 of 2008.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> By the Order dated 3.11.2008 (Annexure 8 to the Writ Petition), their<br \/>\nLordships of the Supreme Court dismissed the said Special Leave Petition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the aforesaid Judgment and Order dated 26th October, 2006 became<br \/>\nfinal.\n<\/p>\n<p>This position has not been disputed by the learned Standing Counsel.\n<\/p>\n<p>In our opinion, the petitioner in the present Writ Petition, who exercised her<br \/>\noption by the Option Letter dated 1.9.2009 (Annexure 9 to the Writ Petition)<br \/>\nin terms of the Government Order dated 25.8.1999, is entitled to the benefit of<br \/>\nGPF Scheme with Pension.\n<\/p>\n<p>As noted earlier, the petitioner is due to retire on 30th June, 2011, and<br \/>\ntherefore, the option exercised by the petitioner by the Option Letter dated<br \/>\n1.9.2009 has been exercised as per the requirement of the said Government<br \/>\nOrder dated 25.8.1999.\n<\/p>\n<p>We may mention that in Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 13169 of 2008 (Kirti<br \/>\nChand Gupta and others Vs. State of U.P. and others) connected with<br \/>\nvarious other Writ Petitions, similar controversy was involved. A Division<\/p>\n<p>Bench of this Court by its Judgment and Order dated 16th April, 2009<br \/>\n(Annexure 10 to the Writ Petition) decided the said Writ Petitions following<br \/>\nthe decision of this Court in Dr. Shri Gopal Gupta (supra), and gave<br \/>\ndirections to the respondents in the said Writ Petitions for extending the<\/p>\n<p>benefit of the said Government Order dated 25th August, 1999 to the<br \/>\npetitioners in the said Writ Petitions.\n<\/p>\n<p>Respectfully following the above decisions, we decide the present Writ<br \/>\nPetition giving similar directions.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Writ Petition is accordingly allowed.\n<\/p>\n<p>The respondents are directed to give benefit of the Government Order dated<\/p>\n<p>25th August, 1999 in terms of the option exercised by the petitioner within<br \/>\nthree months of the filing of the certified copy of this Order before the<br \/>\nDirector of Higher Education, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad.\n<\/p>\n<p>On the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the parties will bear their<br \/>\n own costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>Order Date :- 1.2.2010<br \/>\nAjeet\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allahabad High Court Dr. Smt. Madhu Basra vs State Of U.P. &amp; Others on 1 February, 2010 Court No. &#8211; 29 Case :- WRIT &#8211; A No. &#8211; 4785 of 2010 Petitioner :- Dr. Smt. Madhu Basra Respondent :- State Of U.P. &amp; Others Petitioner Counsel :- N.K. Tripathi Respondent Counsel :- C.S.C. Hon&#8217;ble Satya [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allahabad-high-court","category-high-court"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Smt. 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