Judgment

D.P. Wadhwa, J.-State of Himachal Pradesh in this appeal has chal­lenged the judgment dated May 21, 1992 of the Division Bench of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh (hereinafter referred to as the ‘High Court’) allowing the writ petition filed by certain categories of employees of the High Court seeking parity in pay scale from a partic­ular date and redesignation of their posts with the employees of the Punjab and Haryana High Court. High Court by the impugned judgment directed the State Government ‘to accord and convey the approval for the redesignation and equation of the posts of Senior Translators and Junior Translators with Revisers and Translators and equate them with the posts of Superintendents Grade-II and Assistants in the Himachal Pradesh Civil Secretariat from 23.1.1975 within two months from today and on receiving this approval, the second respondent will take the consequential steps within one month thereafter and grant such other and further reliefs to the petitioners that may flow out of the same”.

2. In coming to this decision, High Court was guided by the decision of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the Sunder Sham Kapur & Ors. v. Hon’ble Chief Justi