Union Of India vs Sayed Muzaffar Mir on 20 September, 1994
16. The decision of this Court in Union of India v. Sayed
Muzaffar Mir (supra) cited by the respondent does not apply to
the facts of the present case. In that case, Rule 1802 (b) of the
Indian Railway Establishment Code provided that the railway
servant could retire voluntarily from service by serving three
months notice and a railway servant by his letter dated
22.07.1985 gave a three months notice to the Railways to
retire from service. After the three months period expired on
21.10.1985, the order of removal of the railway servant was
passed on 04.11.1985. On these facts the Central
Administrative Tribunal, New Mumbai Bench, held that since
the period of notice of voluntary retirement had expired on
21.10.1985, the order of removal was nonest in the eye of law
and this Court did not find any infirmity in the order of the
Tribunal. In the present case, the relevant proviso to Clauses