Bses Rajdhani Power Ltd. vs Uma Rawat & Ors. on 31 August, 2015
56. No doubt, in the case of Pawan Vohra (supra) the
petitioner therein had completed 19 years 3 months and by virtue
of Rule 49(3) of the Pension Rules, the service of the petitioner
therein was treated to be as 20 years of service but the same was
without interpreting the Rule in the manner done by the Division
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Benches in Govt. of NCT of Delhi (supra) and also DTC v.
Karan Singh, inasmuch as the Rule contemplates rounding up of
a fraction to the next nearest half, that is if the period is beyond
six months, a Government servant must necessarily have three
months service beyond six months to be treated as complete one
half-year, which in this case the petitioner did not have. It
follows, that when the petitioner was not eligible to submit a
notice to retire under Rule 48-A, the plea of Mr. Nanda that the
rejection was beyond the period of three months and the
petitioner is deemed to have retired is unsustainable.