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FF public servants should get extension till 61yrs: HC

Staff Correspondent
The High Court yesterday observed that the retirement age limit of freedom fighter public servants should be extended to 61 years instead of current 60 years.
The court also scrapped the provision of public servant retirement law that had enhanced the retirement age limit for the freedom fighter public servants from 59 years to 60 years.
Delivering a verdict on two separate writ petitions, the HC observed that under the existing law, a general candidate's last age for joining the public service is 30 years while a freedom fighter's last age for joining the public service is 32 years.
A general public servant's retirement age is 59 years now, and therefore, his or her
duration of service is at least 29 years. On the other hand, a freedom fighter's retirement age is 60 years, and his or her duration of service is 28 years.
In this situation, a freedom fighter public servant gets less duration and service facilities by one year than a general public servant, and therefore, the provision of the Public Servant Retirement (Amendment) Act, 2013, increasing the retirement age of the freedom fighter public servants from 59 years to 60 years, is illegal and contradictory to the constitution, the HC ruled.
Barrister ABM Siddiqur Rahman Khan, a lawyer for the petitioners, told The Daily Star that the freedom fighter public servants can continue their service till 61 years following the HC verdict. The bench of Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore and Justice AKM Shahidul Huq came up with the verdict following two separate writ petitions filed by two freedom fighter public servants Tapan Kumar Saha and SM Mosir Uddin Waresi last year challenging the legality of the Public Servant Retirement (Amendment) Act, 2013.
The court said the parliamentary standing committee on the public administration had decided to increase the freedom fighter public servants' retirement age limit from 59 years to 61 years and asked the ministry concerned to take step to this effect.
But, the government has increased the freedom fighter public servants' retirement age limit from 59 years to 60 years; therefore, the desire of the parliament has not been reflected, it said.
The government amended the Public Service Retirement Act, 1974 raising the retirement age limit of the freedom fighter public servants from 57 to 59 years in 2009.
In 2013, the government amended the law enhancing the retirement age limit for the public servants from 57 to 59 years and further raised it for the freedom fighter public servants from 59 years to 60 years.