JUDGMENT :

1. Vide the present petition, petitioner prays as under:

a. To declare that the office order dated 31.08.2017 issued by the respondents from its various units for giving HRA benefit at a reduced rate of 5% to barrack members against normal 24% of the basic pay is ultra vires and unconstitutional as the same is violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India;

b. Direct the respondents to grant full HRA to the petitioner for the relevant period on the basis of the Government of India circular dated 07.07.2017;

c. Direct the respondents to pay balance 5% HRA from 01.07.2017 to 31.03.2018 (wrongly typed 31.03.2017)along with interest @ 18% p.a.;

d. Direct the respondents to grant all transportation charges and travel allowance to his family members in view of petitioner’s transfer from CISF IGI Unit to CGPL Mundra Gujarat by treating the petitioner as family member.

2. Having perused the paper book, this Court finds that the issues raised in the present writ petition is no longer res integra as this Court in W.P.(C) No.4839/2019 titled Brijesh Kumar vs. Director General, Central Industrial Security Force vide order dated 18.12.2019 has granted similar reliefs as sought by th