Court No. - 36
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 19065 of 2019 Petitioner :- Om Prakash Pandey and Another Respondent :- State of U.P. And 3 others Counsel for Petitioner :- Kuber Singh Yadav Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.
Hon'ble Mahesh Chandra Tripathi,J.
Heard Sri Kuber Singh Yadav, learned counsel for petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the State-respondents.
Petitioners are pensioners. They have attained the age of superannuation on 30th June, 2016. Petitioners' grievance is that increment to which petitioners are entitled has not been extended so far. Reliance is placed upon a judgment of the Madras High Court dated 15.9.2017 passed in Writ Petition No.15732 of 2017 (P. Ayyamperumal Vs. The Registrar, Central Administrative Tribunal and others), against which a special leave petition filed before the Supreme Court has been rejected on 23rd July, 2018. It is stated that denial of annual increment to the petitioners, in the facts and circumstances, is wholly arbitrary. It is also urged that various representation made in that regard have not been bestowed any consideration and hence this writ petition.
Learned Standing Counsel states that grievance of petitioners would be examined, in accordance with law.
In the facts and circumstances, noticed above, this writ petition stands disposed of with a direction upon the respondent no. 2 i.e. Joint Director of Agriculture (A.B.-2 Section) Uttar Pradesh Krishi Bhawan U.P. Lucknow to accord consideration to petitioners' claim for grant of notional increment w.e.f. 1.7.2015 to 30.6.2016, keeping in view the law laid down in the matter, by passing a reasoned order, within a period of two months from the date of presentation of certified copy of this order.
Order Date :- 28.11.2019 Jaswant