Citation : 2024 Latest Caselaw 8678 Raj
Judgement Date : 1 October, 2024
[2024:RJ-JD:40697]
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
JODHPUR
S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 15980/2024
Girish Kumar Trivedi S/o Mukund Lal Trivedi, Aged About 51
Years, R/o A-77 Behind J.v. Public School Sector 9 Saveena
Udaipur, Dist. Udaipur, At Present Posting Ggsss Bedla, Badgaon,
Dist. Udaipur.
----Petitioner
Versus
1. The State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary,
Government Of Rajasthan, Department Of Education,
Jaipur, Rajasthan.
2. The Director, Secondary Education, Bikaner.
3. The Director, Elementary Education, Bikaner.
4. The Director, Sanskrit Education, Jaipur.
5. The Joint Secretary, Sanskrit Education, Jaipur.
6. The Joint Director, Education Department, Udaipur Zone,
Udaipur.
7. The District Education Officer (Secondary/elementary),
Udaipur.
----Respondents
For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Tanwar Singh Rathore
For Respondent(s) :
HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE VINIT KUMAR MATHUR
Order
01/10/2024
1. Learned counsel for the petitioner, at the outset, submits
that the controversy involved in the present case is squarely
covered by judgment rendered by Co-ordinate Bench of this Court
in S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.3534/2009 Yogesh Kumar
Pareek vs. The State of Rajasthan & Ors. decided on
20.01.2014 in the following terms:
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"Petitioner is aggrieved by denial of salary of summer vacation and shifting of date of increment and other benefits.
It is stated that petitioner was appointed on regular basis on the post of Teacher vide order dated 24.01.1992. After joining on 28.01.1992, petitioner was entitled for benefit of service and salary for summer vacation. Respondents denied aforesaid benefit and increment was shifted to the month of March despite of joining of petitioner in the month of January. Accordingly, the respondents be directed to pay salary of summer vacation and also the date of increment be made to January, 1993.
The officer-in-charge of the respondents could not justify the action of the respondents, inasmuch as Circular dated 28.07.2003 clarified that if employee has been appointed on regular basis on probation then he would be entitled for salary of summer vacation even if appointment is after 31st December. No justification is given by the respondents for denial of benefit of increment from January other than erroneously correlating it with the benefit of selection scale and thereby, shifting it by 48 days. I find the action of respondents is illegal, inasmuch as the petitioner is entitled for the benefit of salary of summer vacation as he is covered by the Circular. The petitioner should be given increment counting his service from the date of joining and not by shifting it to the month of March.
Accordingly, the writ petition is allowed and consequential benefit would be given to the petitioner as referred above. He would be entitled to other benefits based on appointment order dated 24.01.1992 and his joining on 28.01.1992, thus benefit of selection scale would also be determined.
This also disposes of stay application."
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner prays that the petitioner
may be permitted to file an appropriate representation in light of
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the judgment rendered by this Court in the case of Yogesh
Kumar Pareek (Supra) for redressal of his grievances.
3. In view of the submission made, the present writ petition is
disposed of with liberty to the petitioner to file an appropriate
representation for redressal of his grievances before the
respondents, and the respondents are directed to decide the same
within a period of six weeks from the date of receipt of such
representation, strictly in accordance with law, keeping in mind
the directions issued by this Court in the case of Yogesh Kumar
Pareek (Supra).
4. It is made clear that the respondents will be at liberty to
examine the representation so filed by the petitioner
independently, and if the case of the petitioners is squarely
covered by the judgment rendered in the case of Yogesh Kumar
Pareek (Supra), the same benefit shall be extended; otherwise
the respondents will be free to examine the case of the petitioner
on its own merits and pass a speaking order.
(VINIT KUMAR MATHUR),J 13-/Arun P/-
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