HC castigates govt., Rani Channamma University ‘for playing with life of teacher’

The State government “wants to play with the life of a teacher” who had served the government for 34 years, the High Court of Karnataka observed, while castigating the government and Rani Channamma University, Belagavi, for dodging payment of full terminal benefits to a retired professor even 10 years after his retirement merely on the question as to who has to pay the retirement benefits. Both pulled up While pulling up both the varsity and the government for compelling the retired professor to knock the doors of the court multiple times, Justice M. Nagaprasanna directed the government and the university to pay entire terminal benefits to petitioner, M.A. The court noted that he had filed a petition in 2020 for non-payment of a single rupee as a retirement benefit even though he retired in 2015, and the court had directed the government to pay all the terminal benefits. The only reason for non-payment of retirement benefits was due to dispute between the government and the university on the question as to who has to pay the retirement benefits as the government college, in which the petitioner was serving, was absorbed as a constituent college of the university three years prior to his retirement.