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High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCWP/25210/2024disposed of

Darshan Lal v. Pspcl Thr Its Chairman And Others

2024-09-30Mr. Justice Namit Kumar2 pages

CWP No.25210 of 2024 (O&M)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT

CHANDIGARH CWP No.25210 of 2024 (O&M) Date of decision: 30.09.2024 Darshan Lal ....Petitioner

Versus

Punjab State Power Corporation Limited and others ....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE NAMIT KUMAR

Present:

Mr. Dheeraj Mahajan, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Sunint Kaur, Advocate for the respondents.

NAMIT KUMAR J. (Oral) 1.

Prayer in this writ petition filed by the petitioner under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India, is for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus, directing the respondent - authorities to remove the pay anomalies by stepping up and fixing the salary of the petitioner at par with his juniors despite being senior employee in the department is drawing less salary in comparison to his junior i.e. respondent No.6. Further prayer has been made to direct the respondents to consider and decide the representation dated 19.05.2022 (Annexure P-2) filed by the petitioner in a time bound manner. 2.

Learned counsel for the petitioner, at the very outset, confines his prayer for deciding representation dated 19.05.2022 (Annexure P-2). He submits that at this stage, petitioner would be MOHD YAKUB 2024.10.01 10:07 I attest to the accuracy and authenticity of this document Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh

CWP No.25210 of 2024 (O&M) satisfied, if the said representation is decided by passing a speaking order within a time bound frame.

3.

Notice of motion.

4.

Ms. Sunint Kaur, Advocate, accepts notice on behalf of the respondents and has no objection to the innocuous prayer made by learned counsel for the petitioner.

5.

I have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record of the case.

6.

Without going into the merits of the case at this stage, the present petition is disposed of with a direction to respondent No.2 to consider and decide the representation dated 19.05.2022 (Annexure P-2), submitted by the petitioner expeditiously, by passing a speaking order, preferably within a period of 03 months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order.

(NAMIT KUMAR) JUDGE 30.09.2024 yakub Whether speaking/reasoned:

Yes/No Whether reportable:

Yes/No MOHD YAKUB 2024.10.01 10:07 I attest to the accuracy and authenticity of this document Punjab & Haryana High Court at Chandigarh