Allowed¶766
Apurba Saikia and 393 Ors. v. the Union of India and 4 Ors.
Gauhati HCWP(C)/40/2024
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
Gauhati High Court; WP(C)/40/2024; GAHC010002772024; Rajesh Mazumdar; CISF; Central Industrial Security Force; Risk and Hardship Allowance; recovery of excess payment; salary deduction; audit objection; AG Audit Branch Guwahati; LGBI Airport Guwahati; Class-III employees; five-year bar on recovery; undue hardship; State of Punjab v. Rafiq Masih (2015) 4 SCC 334; interim restraint 08.01.2024; writ petition disposed.
What did the court decide?
Recovery of the Risk and Hardship Allowance from the petitioners is stopped: the impugned order dated 18.11.2023 is interfered with insofar as it proposes the recovery (giving permanent effect to the interim stay of 08.01.2024); the question of entitlement is left open; writ petition stands disposed of. ¶766