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Kailash Chandra Jain vs State Of Rajasthan
2025 Latest Caselaw 16662 Raj

Citation : 2025 Latest Caselaw 16662 Raj
Judgement Date : 3 December, 2025

[Cites 3, Cited by 0]

Rajasthan High Court - Jodhpur

Kailash Chandra Jain vs State Of Rajasthan on 3 December, 2025

Author: Farjand Ali
Bench: Farjand Ali
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      HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT
                       JODHPUR
                 S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 5037/2018

1.       Shyam Sunder Mathur S/o M.b. Mathur, G-107, Shastri
         Nagar, Ram Mandir Gali Jodhpur.
2.       Aditya Kumar Saxena S/o Gangaram Saxena, R/o 65, A-
         92, Saraswati Nagar Basani Jodhpur.
                                                                       ----Petitioners
                                       Versus
1.       The State Of Rajasthan Through The Principal Secretary,
         Public Health And Engineering Department, Govt. Of
         Rajasthan, Jaipur.
2.       The Chief Engineer Rural, Public Health And Engineering
         Department, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
3.       The    Chief    Engineer,        Public      Health        And   Engineering
         Department, District, Jodhpur.
4.       The    Chief    Engineer,        Public      Health        And   Engineering
         Department, District, Jaipur.
                                                                     ----Respondents
                                 Connected With
                S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 12134/2021

 1.       Kailash Chandra Jain S/o Shri Kanakmal Jain, Aged
          About 57 Years, R/o 9, Akshayvilla, New Shanti Nagar,
          Sbi Atm Wali Gali, Keshav Nagar, District Udaipur,
          Rajasthan.
 2.       Suneel Kumar Pareek S/o Late Shri Sua Lal Purohit,
          Aged About 58 Years, R/o A-538-C, Panchsheel Nagar,
          District Ajmer, Rajasthan.
 3.       Subhash Chand Gupta S/o Late Shri Ramdayal Gupta,
          Aged About 56 Years, R/o 301, B-8, Venkateshwar
          Complex,      Central       Spine      Vidhyadhar          Nagar,   District
          Jaipur, Rajasthan, Presently C/o Ajay Singh Rathore,
          Near Karjali Complex, Pulls, Udaipur (Raj.).
 4.       Ashok Kumar Jain S/o Shri Basanti Lal Jain, Aged About
          57 Years, R/o House No. 3, Krishna Colony, Chanda
          Talkies Ke Samne, Newai, District Tonk, Rajasthan.



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 5.       Sanjay Agarwal S/o Late Shri Om Prakash Agarwal,
          Aged About 55 Years, R/o 9, Bank Street, Shiv Bari
          Road, District Bikaner, Rajasthan.
                                                                   ----Petitioners
                                    Versus
 1.       State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary, Department
          Of Water Resources, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
 2.       The Secretary, Department Of Finance, Government Of
          Rajasthan, Jaipur.
 3.       The Chief Engineer, Department Of Water Resources,
          Rajasthan, Jaipur.
                                                                 ----Respondents


                              Connected With

                 S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 3961/2020

  Nirmal Lal Mathur S/o Shri Gehra Lal Mathur, Aged About 61
  Years, R/o 185, Kamla Nehru Nagar, Near Pakija Chakki,
  Chopasni Road, Jodhpur, Rajasthan.
                                                                    ----Petitioner
                                    Versus
  1.      The State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary,
          Department Of Water Resources, Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  2.      The Secretary, Department Of Finance, Government Of
          Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  3.      The Chief Engineer, Department Of Water Resources,
          Rajasthan, Jaipur.
  4.      The Joint Secretary, Department Of Water Resources,
          Government Of Rajasthan, Jaipur.
                                                                 ----Respondents


For Petitioner(s)         :     Mr. Divik Mathur
For Respondent(s)         :     Ms. Mehali Mehta
                                Mr. Piyush Bhandari




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                HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE FARJAND ALI

                                        Order

ORDER PRONOUNCED ON                        :                            03/12/2025


ORDER RESERVED ON                          :   06/11/2025 & 04/11/2025


BY THE COURT :-

1. In S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 5037/2018, this Court, while

reserving the matter for order on 06.11.2025, also directed

that the case be tagged along with the reserved files of S.B.

CWP Nos. 12134/2021 and 3961/2020, as the issues

involved therein are similar in nature. It is noted that the

said two matters were reserved for orders on 04.11.2025.

Grievance and Facts of S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.

5037/2018 -

2. By way of filing this writ petition, the petitioners have

assailed the order dated 31.12.2003 (Annex.3) to the extent

it regularizes their services w.e.f. 02.07.2003, and seek a

direction to the respondents to regularize them from the

date of their initial entry in service with all consequential

benefits including proper pay fixation, seniority and

promotional benefits. The petitioners further pray for

quashing of the impugned order (Annex.3) denying them the

benefit of first selection grade from the date of completion of

9 years of service reckoned from their respective dates of

initial appointment on the post of Junior Engineer, and for

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issuance of directions to grant such selection grades as and

when due, together with arrears and interest @ 12% per

annum from the date of accrual till actual payment.

3. The facts of the present writ petition, is that the petitioners

were initially appointed as Junior Engineers (Civil)-Diploma

Holders on temporary ad-hoc basis for three months, or till

regularly selected candidates became available under the

Rajasthan Subordinate Technical (Public Health &

Engineering Department) Rules, 1967 (in short "the 1967

rules"), in the pay scale of Rs. 1400-40-1600-50-2300-60-

2600/-, vide orders placing them under the Chief Engineer,

District Circle, Jodhpur (Annexure-2). Although initially

appointed for three months, their services were extended

from time to time and they continued uninterruptedly on

vacant posts under the 1967 Rules, receiving annual grade

increments, thereby functioning in practice as regularly

appointed employees. The petitioners assert that they

performed duties sincerely and without complaint. A

Screening Committee was later constituted under Rule 24 of

the 1967 Rules for considering regularization of Junior

Engineers working on ad-hoc/temporary/urgent basis as on

31.03.1999, which held its meeting on 23.10.2003 and

recommended eligible cases; pursuant thereto, the Chief

Engineer (Rural), PHED, Jaipur issued an order dated

31.12.2003 regularizing petitioners' services as Junior

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Engineer (Civil)-Diploma Holders w.e.f. 02.07.2003, where

their names appeared at Serial Nos. 13 and 21 (Annexure-

3).

4. The petitioners contended that, in view of settled law that

once appointment is made according to rules, benefits must

flow from the date of initial appointment, their regularization

ought to have been given effect from their original entry in

service in 1997, but they did not immediately approach the

Court since the issue was already sub judice in other

identical matters. Meanwhile, employees' associations had

raised grievances concerning stagnation; the State issued

notification dated 25.01.1992 providing selection grades on

completion of 9, 18 and 27 years of service, followed by

clarifications dated 21.10.1993 (Annexure-5), 19.05.1997

(Annexure-6) and 07.08.1998 (Annexure-7) specifying that

service for Junior Engineers was to be counted from the date

of first appointment. Reliance is also placed on the case of

Sudhanshu Roy Bhatt (SBCWP No. 8358/2009 & 4306/2011)

wherein the learned Single Judge held that once

regularization is granted, benefits must relate back to initial

entry in service; the said view was upheld by the Division

Bench in DBCSA Nos. 909/2011 & 927/2011 and further

affirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in SLP Nos. 33784-

33785/2011 dismissed on 20.07.2012. Another similar issue

concerning counting of ad-hoc service for promotion under

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the Career Advancement Scheme was decided in Dr. Suresh

Chand Agarwal v. State of Rajasthan, where the Single

Bench judgment dated 14.09.1994 was affirmed in D.B. Civil

Special Appeal No. 1289/1997 and later upheld by the

Hon'ble Supreme Court in Civil Appeal No. 469/2007 vide

order dated 10.03.2011, holding exclusion of such service to

be unjustified.

5. Returning to the present case, the petitioners submit that

having completed 9 years of service from their respective

dates of initial appointment in 1997 (Annexure-2), and their

appointments having been made under the 1967 Rules, they

were entitled to first selection grade from the date of initial

appointment, but the respondents instead granted the

benefit from 02.07.2012 by taking regularization date

(02.07.2003) as the starting point, as per orders dated

28.08.2014 and 11.12.2014 (Annexure-8), resulting in

recurring financial loss and affecting seniority. Legal notice

was served but no reply was furnished (Annexure-9).

6. Feeling aggrieved by the regularization order dated

31.12.2003 granting effect only from 02.07.2003 and by the

grant of first selection grade from the date of regularization

instead of initial appointment, the petitioners have preferred

the present writ petition.





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Grievance and Facts of S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. S.B.

Civil Writ Petition No. 12134/2021 -

7. By way of filing this civil writ petition, the petitioners have

prayed that the Order dated 20.04.2021 (Annex.25) passed

by the Department of Finance be declared illegal and

quashed; that the subsequent orders dated 02.06.2021

(Annex.26) and 09.07.2021 (Annex.27) passed by

respondent No.3 also be declared illegal and set aside; that

the respondents be directed to grant the benefit of the

Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP) to the petitioners

on completion of 30 years of regular service by duly

reckoning the service rendered on adhoc basis prior to

regular appointment in terms of the exception dated

21.10.1993 (Annex.04) inserted in Para-3 of the notification

dated 25.01.1992 (Annex.03), along with all consequential

benefits; and that the respondents further be directed to pay

interest @18% per annum for the delayed fixation of

selection scale/ACP and the arrears arising therefrom.

8. That the Petitioners entered into the services of the

respondent department in the year 1987 on the post of

Junior Engineer on an ad-hoc basis in the pay scale of

Rs.1160-2360, pursuant to their appointment orders; that

various orders came to be passed from time to time

regarding counting of their ad-hoc service for grant of

Selection Grade/ACP benefits; that an order dated

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30.03.2021 was issued by the Secretary, Department of

Deputy Finance (Budget) stating inter alia that in pursuance

of the order dated 24.12.2020, the benefit of ACP to Junior

Engineers appointed on ad-hoc basis up to 28.02.1997 shall

be allowed by computing their ad-hoc services, however

actual financial benefit would be granted only from the date

of regularization and benefits for the ad-hoc period shall be

only notional (Annexure-24); that thereafter another order

dated 20.04.2021 was issued by the Deputy Secretary,

Department of Finance (Budget) withdrawing the earlier

orders dated 24.12.2020 (ID No.102005252) and

30.03.2021 (ID No.102101467) in view of the opinion of the

Advocate General and earlier decisions in the cases of

Jagdish Narayan Chaturvedi and Surendra Mohnot

(Annexure-25); that following issuance of the order dated

20.04.2021, the office of Chief Engineer, Water Resources,

Jaipur passed a consequential order dated 02.06.2021

withdrawing the earlier orders issued in compliance of orders

dated 24.12.2020 and 30.03.2021 (Annexure-26); that

subsequently another order dated 09.07.2021 was issued by

the Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department, whereby

the ACP/Selection Scale earlier granted to the petitioners

and other similarly situated employees by computing their

ad-hoc services was withdrawn (Annexure-27); and that the

petitioners, being aggrieved of the orders dated 20.04.2021

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and 02.06.2021 and the denial of Selection Grade/ACP

benefits from the date of their initial appointment on the

post of Junior Engineer, have preferred the present petition.

Grievance and Facts of S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.S.B.

Civil Writ Petition No. 3961/2020-

9. By way of filing this civil writ petition, the petitioner prays

that the Letter/Communication dated 03.09.2019 (Annex.13)

issued by respondent No.4, along with the decision/comment

of the Department of Finance whereby the benefit of ACP/3rd

ACP has been denied by excluding the period of adhoc

service rendered by the petitioner/JEns prior to their regular

appointment, may be declared illegal and consequently

quashed and set aside. The respondents may further be

directed to grant the benefit of ACP/3rd ACP to the petitioner

by duly reckoning the entire period of adhoc service

rendered before regular appointment, with all consequential

benefits. The respondents may also be directed to pay

interest @18% per annum for the delayed fixation of 3rd

ACP and consequential arrears.

10. The breif facts of the present case are that the

petitioner, a retired employee of the respondent department,

last served as Assistant Engineer at Canal Sub-division-

Superannuation III, Canal Division-I, Bisalpur Project,

District Tonk, and after retirement has settled at Jodhpur at

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the address mentioned in the cause title; the petitioner

initially entered the services of the respondent department in

the year 1987 on the post of Junior Engineer on ad-hoc basis

in the pay scale of Rs. 1160-2360 pursuant to appointment

order dated 21.09.1987, and after rendering more than ten

years of uninterrupted service, his case was placed before

the Screening Committee constituted in 1998, which issued

order dated 14.05.1998 under Rule 6(9) of the Rules 1967,

regularizing his services w.e.f. 28.07.1997 and placing his

name at Sr. No. 58 in order of seniority according to date of

joining on ad-hoc basis; that in view of acute stagnation in

promotions in Class-IV/Ministerial/Subordinate Services, the

State Government introduced a scheme for grant of selection

scales on completion of 9, 18 and 27 years of service vide

order dated 25.01.1992, followed by an exception added on

21.10.1993 clarifying that selection grades for Junior

Engineers would be admissible on completion of 9, 18 and 27

years of continuous service on the post of Junior Engineer,

which was further clarified by the Finance Department vide

letter dated 19.05.1997 addressed to the Chief Engineer,

Irrigation Department, Jaipur, reiterating that service for

Junior Engineers shall be counted from the date of their first

appointment; that from a combined reading of the orders

dated 21.10.1993 and 19.05.1997 it becomes clear that

while Junior Engineers are entitled to counting of service

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from their first appointment on the post, employees of other

services continue to be governed by Para 3 of the order

dated 25.01.1992; that the petitioner became eligible for

first selection grade on completion of 9 years of service

w.e.f. 03.10.1996 and for second selection grade on

completion of 18 years of service w.e.f. 03.10.2005, but the

selection grades were not granted, compelling him to file

Appeal No. 5/2017 before the Rajasthan Civil Services

Appellate Tribunal, Jodhpur; that several similarly situated

employees also approached this Court, including in S.B. Civil

Writ Petition No. 16252/2018 (Gopi Ram Marwal & Anr. v.

State of Rajasthan & Ors.), wherein the Court on 23.10.2018

held that the controversy was covered by the earlier

judgment in Bhiya Ram Vishnoi v. State of Rajasthan decided

on 14.02.2017, noting that the State's appeal had already

been dismissed on 04.07.2018, and accordingly extended

the same benefit to the petitioners; that meanwhile, the

State notified the Rajasthan Civil Services (Revised Pay)

Rules, 2008 introducing the Assured Career Progression

(ACP) Scheme in lieu of selection grades, providing for

financial up-gradation on completion of 10 years' continuous

service in the same grade pay, later amended on 06.10.2008

by substituting "10 years" with "9 years" and inserting sub-

rules clarifying eligibility for ACP in cases where selection

grades or promotions had been previously granted; that

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thereafter, the Chief Engineer, Water Resources Department,

issued order dated 28.11.2018 deciding that in cases where

Junior Engineers appointed on ad-hoc basis between

01.09.1987 to 28.02.1997 had completed 9 years of ad-hoc

service before 17.02.1998, such ad-hoc service would be

countable for selection grade, followed by another order

dated 07.06.2019 granting the petitioner selection grades of

9 and 18 years w.e.f. 04.10.1996 and 04.10.2005

respectively; that the petitioner expected that in view of the

above orders and judgments, he would receive the benefits

of 9, 18 and 27 years' selection grades by counting his ad-

hoc service, but was then informed that the Finance

Department had taken a decision not to count ad-hoc service

for grant of 3rd ACP under the revised pay rules of 2008, as

ACP benefits were admissible only after regular appointment;

that the Joint Secretary, Water Resources Department,

accordingly issued letter dated 03.09.2019 directing

amendment of cases where ACP had been granted by

counting ad-hoc service, enclosing Finance Department's

comment dated 02.09.2019 reiterating that ACP cannot be

granted by taking into account ad-hoc service prior to

regular appointment; that in consequence, the petitioner will

not be granted ACP/3rd ACP by counting his ad-hoc service,

which the petitioner alleges to be illegal, arbitrary, contrary

to earlier notifications and inconsistent with judgments

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passed by this Court in favour of similarly situated Junior

Engineers; and that being aggrieved by the continued delay

and denial of selection grades and ACP benefits from the

date of his initial appointment, the petitioner has preferred

the present writ petition.

11. Heard learned counsels present for the parties and

gone through the materials available on record.

12. Upon consideration of the pleadings and submissions in

S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 5037/2018, S.B. Civil Writ Petition

No. 12134/2021 and S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 3961/2020,

the following common question of law arise for adjudication:

Whether the period of service rendered by the petitioners as

Junior Engineers on ad-hoc/temporary basis prior to their

regular appointment is required to be counted as qualifying

service from the date of initial appointment for the purpose

of grant of Selection Grades (9, 18, 27 years) and ACP/3rd

ACP benefits, in view of the applicable Government circulars

and settled judicial precedents?

13. It is not in dispute that the petitioners in all three writ

petitions were initially appointed as Junior Engineers on ad-

hoc basis against sanctioned posts, under the respective

statutory service rules of the Engineering Subordinate

Services. Their appointments, though described as

temporary/ad-hoc, were made under the Rules, and their

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services continued uninterruptedly for long periods. They

were granted annual grade increments and were subjected

to the same supervisory control and responsibilities as

regularly appointed JEs.

14. The Government Order dated 25.01.1992 introduced

the scheme of Selection Grades on completion of 9, 18 and

27 years of service. The subsequent clarification dated

21.10.1993 carved out a specific exception for Junior

Engineers, providing that their service shall be counted from

the date of first appointment. This was reiterated by the

Finance Department letter dated 19.05.1997, leaving no

ambiguity that the service of JEs, whether ad-hoc or regular,

shall be counted from their initial entry in service.

15. This Court has, on multiple occasions, interpreted the

1992 Scheme and the 1993 & 1997 clarifications. In

Sudhanshu Roy Bhatt (SBCWP No. 8358/2009 &

4306/2011), the learned Single Judge held that once an

employee is regularized, the benefits must relate back to the

initial date of appointment. The judgment was upheld by the

Division Bench and by the Hon'ble Supreme Court upon

dismissal of the Special Leave Petitions on 20.07.2012.

Similar recognition of past service for financial progression is

found in Dr. Suresh Chand Agarwal, where exclusion of ad-

hoc service was held unjustified, and the judgment attained

finality up to the Supreme Court.




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16. In several other matters relating to similarly placed

Junior Engineers such as Bhiya Ram Vishnoi v. State of

Rajasthan decided on 14.02.2017 , Gopi Ram Marwal & Anr.

v. State of Rajasthan & Ors., decided on 23.10.2018 Gopi

Ram Marwal, and connected litigation this Court has

consistently held that service rendered on ad-hoc basis prior

to regularization must be counted for Selection Grades and

financial upgradation, especially where such service was

rendered without break and under the governing Rules.

17. The respondents, however, have taken a contrary view

in the impugned orders dated 20.04.2021, 02.06.2021,

09.07.2021 and communication dated 03.09.2019, holding

that ad-hoc service cannot be counted for ACP/3rd ACP. Such

withdrawal of benefits is unsupported by any statutory

amendment, and is contrary to the Government's own

exception in favour of Junior Engineers, as well as binding

judicial precedents.

18. This Court finds no justification for adopting different

criteria at different stages, counting ad-hoc service for

Selection Grades, but denying the same for ACP/3rd ACP--

when the underlying principle under the 1992 Scheme, the

1993 exception, and subsequent ACP schemes remains that

continuous service rendered on the same post must be

counted.





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19. The impugned orders are therefore unsustainable,

being contrary to earlier circulars, executive instructions, and

settled law laid down by this Court and affirmed by the

Hon'ble Supreme Court. The petitioners are entitled to have

their service counted from their initial date of appointment

for purposes of Selection Grades/ACP/3rd ACP, with

consequential benefits.

Operative Directions

20. The impugned orders dated 31.12.2003 (to the extent

challenged), 20.04.2021, 02.06.2021, 09.07.2021, and

communication dated 03.09.2019, as well as all

consequential withdrawal orders, are hereby quashed and

set aside.

21. The respondents are directed to count the ad-hoc

service rendered by the petitioners from their respective

dates of initial appointment on the post of Junior Engineer

for the purposes of:

Selection Grades of 9, 18 and 27 years, and

ACP / 3rd ACP benefits under the Rajasthan Civil Services

(Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 and amendments thereto.

22. The respondents shall accordingly re-fix the pay,

restore/ grant the financial upgradations, and release the

consequential arrears, within a period of three months from

the date of receipt of this order.





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23. Arrears shall carry interest @ 6% per annum, to be

calculated from the date the benefit became due till the date

of actual payment.

24. All three writ petitions stand allowed in the above

terms. No order as to costs.

(FARJAND ALI),J 104-Mamta/-

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