Hyderabad, July 30 -- The Telangana High Court has set aside the compulsory retirement of a Union Bank of India officer, holding that failure to repay personal credit card dues cannot be treated as misconduct warranting disciplinary action.

The order was passed by Justice Juvvadi Sridevi while hearing a petition filed by M Prakash Babu, who had joined the bank as a probationary officer in 1979 and was compulsorily retired in 2009.

The court not only quashed the retirement order but also directed the bank to treat Babu as having remained in service until his retirement age, and to extend all consequential benefits within eight weeks.

Rs 1 lakh card limit, dues rose to Rs 1.68 lakh

According to the case, the officer held a gold credit c...