2. Learned counsel for petitioner submits that whether a government employee retiring on 30th June of a year is entitled to avail the benefit of increment as fixed on 1st of July is being decided by the Supreme Court recently in the case of the Director (Admn. and HR) KPTCL & Ors. vs. C.P. Mundinamani & Ors., Civil Appeal No.2471/2023 dated 11.04.2023, wherein after considering the judgments of different High Courts including the Madhya Pradesh High Court it has been held that benefit of annual increment which is to be added on 1st of July every year shall be paid to the employee who is going to be retired on 30th June of the said year. It is further submitted that controversy is now no longer res integra . The present petitioner No.1 to 3 retired on 30.06.2010, petitioner No.4 retired on 30.06.2012, petitioner No.5 retired on 30.06.2015, petitioner No.6 retired on 30.06.2020, petitioners No. 7 and 8 retired on 30.06.2020, petitioner No.9 retired on 30.06.2021, petitioners No. 10 to 12 retired on 30.06.2022 and petitioner No.13 retired on 30.06.2023, therefore, they are entitled to avail the benefit of annual increment which was to
