Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court writ appeal (W.A.No.2294 of 2022, decided 19.09.2025) by Tamil Nadu School Education officials against a Single Judge direction to revise the pension of retired Double Part Time Vocational Teacher N.Sampath by counting 50% of service from 09.07.1979 to 04.10.1996 preceding regularisation on 05.10.1996 (retirement 30.04.2012); Division Bench followed the Full Bench ruling in Government of Tamil Nadu v. K.Pachaiyappan (W.A.No.882 of 2017 & batch, 06.04.2018), held the order impugned in the writ court legally unsustainable, and closed the appeal with no costs along with CMP.No.17510 of 2022.
What did the court decide?
None to the appellants; finding no grounds to interfere, the Court closed the Writ Appeal with no costs, leaving intact the writ court's direction to revise the first respondent's pension by counting 50% of his Double Part Time Vocational Teacher service; the connected miscellaneous petition (CMP.No.17510 of 2022) was also closed.