Onkar Prasad Kaushik v. State Of Chhattisgarh

NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH, BILASPUR Writ Petition (S) No. 6805 of 2018

1. Onkar Prasad Kaushik S/o Shri R. S. Kaushik, Aged About 42 Years, R/o Near Little Flower School, Om Nagar, Jarhabhata, DistrictBilaspur, Chhattisgarh

2. Smt. Nirmala Tripathi W/o Shri Om Prakash Tripathi, Aged About 51 Years R/o Om Nagar Jarhabhata, District- Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

3. Smt. Pranita Moghe W/o Shri Makrand Moghe, Aged About 44 Years R/o Parijat Colony, Nehru Nagar, District- Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

4. Smt. Seema Agrawal W/o Shri Sanjeev Kumar Agrawal, Aged About 49 Years R/o Katiyapara, Udai Chowk, Distict- Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh ---- Petitioner

Versus

1. State Of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary, Department Of Panchayat, Capital Complex, Mahanadi Bhawan, New Raipur, District- Raipur, Chhattisgarh

2. Chief Executive Officer, Zila Panchayat Bilaspur, Distict- Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

3. Chief Executive Officer, Zila Panchayat Surguja, District- Surguja Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh ---- Respondents For Petitioner :

Shri Bhaskar Payashi, Advocate For State :

Shri Chandresh Shrivastava, P.L.

Hon'ble Shri Justice P. Sam Koshy Order On Board

11.10.2018 Heard.

1.

Learned counsel for the parties would submit that the issue raised in this petition is squarely covered by order dated 28.11.2017 passed by this Court in WPS No.2530 of 2017 (Mukesh Kumar Patel and another Vs. State of Chhattisgarh and another) and batch of petitions wherein the circular dated 23.04.2016 has been quashed, petitions allowed and it has been declared that the petitioners therein shall be entitled to obtain the benefit of revised pay-scale on completion of 8 years service by including the services rendered by them on a lower post or on the same post. 2.

In view of the aforesaid submission and the impugned order and action is based on circular dated 23.04.2016 which has been quashed in the case referred to herein above, the petition also deserves to be allowed with the direction that the petitioners shall be entitled to obtain the benefit of revised pay-scale on completion of 8 years service including the services rendered by them on a lower post or on the same post. 3.

No order as to costs.

Sd/- P. Sam Koshy Judge Bhola