P. TULASI DAS . vs GOVT. OF A.P. — C.A. No. 2652 - 2654/1995

Case Summary: P. Tulsi Das v. Government of A.P. Court Decision: The Supreme Court partially allowed the appeals, striking down Sections 2 and 3(a) and (e) of the A.P. Educational Service Untrained Teachers (Regulation of Services and Fixation of Pay) Act, 1991 as unconstitutional. The Court held that the Act's retrospective application violated Articles 14 and 16 by arbitrarily depriving untrained teachers of pay scale benefits already acquired through prior government orders and court judgments. The Court read down Section 2 to apply only prospectively, preserving teachers' rights for the period before the Act's enactment. Key Reasoning: The Court applied established precedent that legislatures cannot retrospectively strip vested rights accrued during the validity of prior legal orders, even to remedy administrative anomalies. While the Act could operate prospectively, retrospective deprivation of earned benefits and mandatory repayment constituted arbitrary, unreasonable expropriation violating constitutional guarantees. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.