Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:70944-DB Court No. - 29 Case :- SPECIAL APPEAL No. - 370 of 2025 Appellant :- Dr Pramod Kumar Gupta And Another Respondent :- Union Of India And 4 Others Counsel for Appellant :- Ujjawal Satsangi Counsel for Respondent :- A.S.G.I.,Hem Pratap Singh,Rahul Jain Hon'ble Ashwani Kumar Mishra,J. Hon'ble Praveen Kumar Giri,J. 1. Controversy raised in the present petition stands adjudicated by this Court in Special Appeal No. 228 of 2025 (Prof. Harish Chandra Chaudhary and others vs. The Union of India and others) vide order dated 02.05.2025. For the reasons recorded therein, the appeal at the instance of appellant no.1 fails and is dismissed. 2. So far as the appellant no.2 is concerned, he has been appointed on 20.01.1986 and he was in service on 01.01.1986. The appeal at the instance of appellant no.2 succeeds and is allowed in terms of the adjudication made in Special Appeal No. 309 of 2025 (Akhoury Sudhir Kumar Sinha Vs. Union of India and 5 others), vide order dated 2.5.2025. Order Date :- 5.5.2025 Ashok Kr. Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad