JABALPUR, India, May 12 -- Madhya Pradesh High Court issued the following Judgement/Order on April 15:

1. In all these writ petitions, a common question of fact and law is involved and therefore, they are heard analogously and disposed of by this common order.

2. A common grievance of the petitioners in this batch of writ petitions is with regard to grant of annual increment which became on completion of one year's service before attaining the age of superannuation. In some of the cases, the petitioners or the employees whose widows/legal heirs have approached this Court, have retired from June and while in others, they have retired on 31December of the year of their superannuation. It is their case that they have not been extended the be...