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Madras High Court, W.P.No.31156 of 2023 (Article 226 certiorari against CAT order in O.A.No.572 of 2022), decided 02/04/2026 by P.Velmurugan and K.Govindarajan Thilakavadi, JJ. Concerns pay protection granted to an employee transferred on her own request from Stenographer Grade-D (CPWD, New Delhi) to LDC in PESO after technical resignation, appointment treated as direct recruitment, and subsequent revision of pay fixation on Internal Audit Wing objection. Key issues: entitlement to pay protection on own-request transfer to a lower post; rectification of erroneous pay fixation; retrospective recovery of excess payments absent misrepresentation or fraud. Outcome: Tribunal's full pay protection order set aside; anti-recovery direction upheld; re-fixation prospective only; no recovery of sums already disbursed; no costs; miscellaneous petitions closed. No precedents cited; no monetary quantum stated.