Dr. Vishnu Mohan Thakur v. The State Of Bihar And ORS

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.10894 of 2016 =========================================================== Dr. Vishnu Mohan Thakur, Son of Lae Uday Mohan Thakur, Resident of Mohalla - Vishwanath Nagar, Road No. 6, P.S. - Begusarai, District - Begusarai, retired as Reader in the subject of commerce in Co-operative College, Begusarai. .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

1. The State of Bihar

2. The Director, Higher Education, Govt. of Bihar, New Secretariat, Patna.

3. The Vice Chancellor, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwar Nagar, Darbhanga.

4. The Registrar, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwar Nagar, Darbhanga.

5. The Finance Officer, Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Kameshwar Nagar, Darbhanga.

6. The Principal, Co-operative College, Begusarai. .... .... Respondent/s =========================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Shashi Bhushan Singh, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr. Nasim Yahya- GP13 =========================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR UPADHYAY ORAL JUDGMENT Date: 23-04-2018 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and State.

2. The petitioner has confined his prayer to a direction to the respondents to consider his case for grant of arrears of salary from 01.01.2006 to May, 2013.

3. Counsel for the petitioner submits that similarly circumstanced others have been granted the benefit of arrears of difference of salary, but the respondents have adopted different yardstick. So far as the claim of the petitionerfor payment of difference of arrear is concerned, the State cannot adopt two different yardstick, if similarly circumstanced have given the benefit, the same

Patna High Court CWJC No.10894 of 2016 dt.23-04-2018 2/2 must be extended to this petitioner.

4. In the event, the respondents find that the others were granted the benefit erroneously or illegally, then the respondent University is directed to take corrective measure and pass appropriate order after hearing such teachers who were granted the benefit, otherwise, the respondents are obliged to extend the same treatment to the petitioner. The entire exercise in this regard must be completed within a maximum period of four months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order.

5. With the aforesaid, the writ application stands disposed of.

(Anil Kumar Upadhyay, J) Uday/- AFR/NAFR NAFR CAV DATE NA Uploading Date25.04.2018 Transmission Date