Sunil Kumar Pandey vs State Of U.P Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. ...
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Sunil Kumar Pandey vs State Of U.P Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. ... on 1 February, 2024

Author: Manish Kumar

Bench: Manish Kumar

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD, LUCKNOW BENCH
 
 


?Neutral Citation No. - 2024:AHC-LKO:9381
 

 
Court No. - 18
 

 
Case :- WRIT - A No. - 708 of 2024
 

 
Petitioner :- Sunil Kumar Pandey
 
Respondent :- State Of U.P Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Personnel. Lko. And 3 Others
 
Counsel for Petitioner :- Gyanendra Nath
 
Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Gaurav Mehrotra,Prashast Puri
 

 
Hon'ble Manish Kumar,J.
 

Heard learned counsel for petitioner, learned State Counsel for respondent no. 1 and Shri Prashant Puri, Advocate, who has filed his vakalatnama on behalf of respondent nos. 2 to 4, which is taken on record.

Petition has been filed seeking a direction to opposite parties to grant one annual increment to which the petitioner has earned by rendering services from Ist July 2019 till 30th June 2020 whereafter he superannuated and became entitled for the increment with effect from Ist July, 2020.

Learned counsel has placed reliance on judgment rendered by this court in the case of P.P. Pandey versus State of U.P. and others, reported in 2021(1)ADJ 646 which has been followed by another coordinate Bench of this Court in the case of Nand Vijay Singh and others versus Union of India and other, reported in (2021)4 AWC 3182 which has been quoted with approval by the Supreme Court in the case of The Director (Admn. and HR) KPTCL & others versus C.P. Mundinamani and others reported in 2023 Live Law (SC) 296.

Learned State Counsel also does not dispute the fact that petitioner is squarely covered by the aforesaid judgment.

Considering the said factors, a writ in the nature of Mandamus is issued commanding the opposite parties to grant benefit of judgment rendered by this Court in the case of P.P. Pandey (supra) with regard to grant of one annual increment to which he had become admissible on Ist July, 2020.

Resultantly, the petition succeeds and is allowed at the admission stage itself. Parties to bear their own cost.

Order Date :- 1.2.2024

Ashish