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Service Matter - Indian Air Force - whether the Service tenure of Group Captains ( Time Scale) & (Select) whether serving in flying or on ground duty entitled to continue in service up to 54 &57 years - Tribunal held yes - challenged - Apex court too confirmed the same and held that the basis for classification in question for purposes of age of superannuation which the appellant has projected is much too tenuous to be accepted as a valid basis for giving to the Time Scale Officers a treatment different from the one given to the Select Officers. We are also of the view that concerns arising from a parity in the retirement age of Time Scale and Select Officers too are more perceptional than real. At any rate, such concerns remain to be substantiated on the basis of any empirical data. The upshot of the above discussion is that the classification made by the Government of India for purposes of different retirement age for Time Scale Officers and Select Officers does not stand scrutiny on the touchstone of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution as rightly held by the Tribunal. In the result, these civil appeals fail and are hereby dismissed but in the circumstances without any order as to costs.= CIVIL APPEAL NOS. 4717-4719 of 2013 Union of India & Ors. …Appellants Versus Atul Shukla etc. …Respondents = 2014 - Sept. Month - http://judis.nic.in/supremecourt/imgst.aspx?filename=41952