A single judge heard multiple writ petitions regarding pay scales and salary arrears. The court found the legal issues were already settled in a coordinate bench judgment and decided to dispose of all pending petitions by relying on the earlier decision.
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| SL. No |
Date | Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures |
COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS | |
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| WPSS No.152 of 2022 WPSS No.153 of 2022 WPSS No.154 of 2022 WPSS No.155 of 2022 WPSS No.156 of 2022 WPSS No.249 of 2022 WPSS No.250 of 2022 WPSS No.358 of 2022 WPSS No.747 of 2022 WPSS No.750 of 2022 WPSS No.754 of 2022 Hon’ble Man oj Ku m ar Tiw ar i, J. Mr. Tapan Singh, Advocate fo petitioner. |
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| Mr. C.S. Rawat, Chief Sta | nding | |||
| Counsel, Mrs. Anjali Bhargava, Addit | ional | |||
| C.S.C. and Mr. Gajendra Tripathi, Holder for the State of Uttarakhand. |
Brief |
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| Heard learned counsel for parties. Since common questions of law facts are involved in these writ petit therefore they were heard together |
the and ions, and |
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| are being decided by a com |
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| judgment. However for sake of bre | vity, | |||
| facts of Writ Petition (S/ S) No.15 | 2 of | |||
| 2022 are being considered |
and | |||
discussed. |
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| By means of this writ pet | ition, | |||
| petitioner has sought the follo |
wing |
| reliefs: “i) Issue a writ, order or direction, quashing the impugned order dated 31- 07-2019 passed by respondent no. 4 (contained as Annexure No. 8 to this writ petition). ii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding/ directing the respondents to fix the pay scale of the petitioner as fixed by office order dated 12-03-2013 (Contained as Annexure no. 2 to this writ petition) and thereafter pay the different of salary to the petitioner along with 18% interest from its due date till the date of actual payment. iii) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding/ directing the respondents to give the |
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| salary of the petitioner to the petitioner as fixed by office order dated 12-03- |
| 2012 (Contained as Annexure no. 2 to this writ petition). iv) Issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding/ directing the respondents to give the |
| arrear of the pay of the petitioner along with 18% interest from 19-01-2016 till |
| the payment of the aforesaid arrear.” Learned counsel for the petitioner |
| submits that identical question has been |
| decided by Co-ordinate Bench of this |
| Court vide judgment dated 13.08.2021 |
| rendered in WPSS No. 609 of 2020 and |
| other connected writ petitions. Learned C.S.C. and learned |
| Additional C.S.C. endorse the | statement |
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| made by learned counsel |
for the |
| petitioner and they fairly con | cede that |
| the issue is covered by |
the said |
| judgment. Since learned counsel |
for the |
| parties are ad idem that |
question |
| involved in these writ petitio | ns stands |
| settled by judgment rendere ordinate Bench of this Court, these writ petitions are dispo |
d by Co- therefore, sed of in |
| terms of judgment dated 1 | 3.08.2021 |
| rendered in WPSS No. 609 of other connected writ petitions. ( Man oj Ku m ar 01.07.2022 Arpan |
2020 and Tiw ar i, J.) |
1 issue framed by the court
Whether these writ petitions require separate decision or can be disposed of by reference to a settled judgment.
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WPSS No. 609 of 2020Referred¶1
Manoj Kumar Tiwari
As recorded by the court registry
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