'No forced retirement to teacher'

A rule providing for forced retirement of a central government employee before normal age of superannuation is not applicable to a teacher of an unaided private school, the Delhi High Court has ruled.

A bench of Justices Pradeep Nandrajog and Pratibha Rani quashed the verdict of a single-judge bench, which had earlier upheld the decision of a Delhi school to compulsorily retire one of its teachers, shortly after she (the teacher) turned 50.

The school had forced her to retire applying Fundamental Rule 56(j), meant for compulsory retirement of Central government employees in public interest before his or her age of superannuation, but after 50.

“Fundamental Rules cannot be held applicable to the teachers of an unaided recognised private school,” the bench said.