Sandip Pandurang Lagad v. The State Of Maharashtra Through Its Secretary And Others

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

BENCH AT AURANGABAD 907 WRIT PETITION NO.4147 OF 2023 SANDIP PANDURANG LAGAD

VERSUS

THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA THROUGH ITS SECRETARY AND OTHERS ...

Advocate for Petitioners : Mr. Estling S. Murge AGP for Respondent No.1: Mr. V.M. Kagne Advocate for Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 : Mr. A.D. Aghav .....

CORAM : RAVINDRA V. GHUGE AND SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, JJ.

DATED : 28th APRIL, 2023.

PER COURT :- 1.

There is no dispute that the Petitioner, as he was serving with the Zilla Parihsad Nashik, had earned an Adarsha Gramsevak Puraskar and he was, therefore, legally entitled to get an additional increment. There is no illegality in his selection for the said Puraskar. It is under fortuitous circumstances, that he was transferred interdistrict to the Zilla Parishad, Ahmednagar. The benefit of additional increment, as applicable under the Government Resolution dated 10.11.1998, has not been extended to him by the Zilla Parishad, on a spacious plea that the Petitioner never asked for it. 2.

In view of the above, this Petition is allowed. We direct Respondent Nos. 2 and 3 to calculate the unpaid amounts towards the additional increment earned by way of Adarsha Gramsevak

wp4147.23 -2Award and pay arrears to the Petitioner within a period 60 days. Needless to state, addition of additional increment shall have effect from the date of the award and the Petitioner would stand to gain monetary benefits. Accordingly, his pay scale will have to be reworked. Let this fixation of the pay scale be done within 30 days from today.

(SANJAY A. DESHMUKH, J.) (RAVINDRA V. GHUGE , J.) rlj/