Gujarat Government Harasses 90-Year-Old Retired Teachers, Demands Return of Dues Awarded by High Court Chief Justice

It takes a special kind of administrative cruelty to drag 90-year-old retired educators back into court, but the Gujarat government has managed to set a new low.

After spending four decades fighting for their rightful higher pay scale, Tulsibhai Patel and 52 veteran teachers finally got justice in 2022. In a rare, historic moment, then-Chief Justice Aravind Kumar summoned state officials into his courtroom and personally handed the long-overdue salary cheques (with interest) to these aging citizens. Justice, it seemed, was finally served.

Fast forward to today: the state’s Education Department has decided to trample over the judiciary's directives. In a move that defies basic morality and legal ethics, officials issued recovery notices and started deducting money straight from the fragile pensions of these 90-year-old seniors.

Instead of letting these senior citizens live out their twilight years in peace with the money they earned through decades of service, the government is actively leeching back their pensions. Forced to knock on the High Court's doors yet again at age 90, these teachers aren't just fighting for their money—they are exposing a bureaucratic system so shameless that even a Chief Justice's order isn't sacred.