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IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR
Hon’ble Shri Amitendra Kishore Prasad, J
Seeta Thakur Wd/o Ramesh Kumar Thakur – Appellant
Versus
State of Chhattisgarh Through Secretary, Co-Operative Societies, Mahanadi Bhawan, Mantralaya, Nava Raipur, Atal Nagar Chhattisgarh District Raipur Chhattisgarh. – Respondent
Order :
(Amitendra Kishore Prasad, J.)
1. Heard Mr. Varun Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioners in WPS Nos.5784/2022, 5104/2023, 5671/2023, 5736/2023 & 2171/2024 and Mr. Gagan Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioner in WPS No.2478/2024. Also heard Mr. Akhilesh Kumar, learned Government Advocate appearing for the State as well as Mr. Sandeep Dubey, learned counsel appearing for the respondent-Bank.
2. Since common question is involved in these writ petitions, they are clubbed together heard together and are being disposed of by this common order.
3. The petitioners in these batch of writ petitions are employees of the District Co-operative Central Bank Limited, Raipur (in short, “the Bank”) in different posts; such as, Branch Manager, Additional Assistant Manager, Society Manager, Accountant, Assistant Accountant, Clerk and Peon etc. The common grievance in these batch of writ petitions is in respect of denial/stoppage of annual increments to the petitioners w.e.f. 01.04.2021.
4. For the sake of convenience, WPS No.5671/2023 is being treated as the lead case.
5. In WPS No.5671/2023, the petitioners have sought for following relief(s):-
“i. To kindly call for the records of the cas
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