Madras HC rejects PIL against retirement age hike by Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: A public interest writ petition questioning the legality of the government order extending the retirement age of government employees from 58 years to 59 was rejected by the Madras HC on Friday.
A division bench of Justices R Subbiah and Krishnan Ramaswamy said a letter issued by the state dated May 14 makes it clear that the May 7 GO has no application in so far as it relates to those government servants whose services are retained for pending inquiry under the Prevention of Corruption Act.“Thus, even assuming that some of the government servants facing departmental proceedings were retained in service beyond the age of his or her retirement under the garb of the GO, we are of the view such extension of service in favour of those government servants would not absolve their delinquency nor will it in any manner aid them to get a clean chit in their favour in the departmental proceedings,” the bench said while rejecting the plea of advocate M Karpagam.