D. B. Mathur vs Punjab National Bank - 2022 Supreme(Del) 1281

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2022 Supreme(Del) 1281

YASHWANT VARMA
D. B. Mathur – Appellant
Versus
Punjab National Bank – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
Kamaldeep Dayal, Advocate, Jagat Arora, Advocate

JUDGMENT

Yashwant Varma, J. - This writ petition has been preferred seeking the following reliefs:

'(a) issue an appropriate Writ in the nature of a Writ of Certiorari or any other Resources appropriate Writ quashing the order dated 5.11.2009 passed by the General Manager, Human Resources Development Division, New Delhi of the Respondent-Bank;

(b) issue an appropriate Writ, Order or Direction directing the Respondent to re-fix the pay of the Petitioner by including an increment equivalent to 24 years of service (including pre-commissioned training period) of the Petitioner in the army with effect from 14.8.89 in accordance with Circular No. 30/91 dated 14.8.91 issued by the Respondent-Bank;'

2. The genesis of the dispute relates to the claim of the petitioner for his fitment in an appropriate scale of pay under the respondent Bank in which he came to be employed after serving in the armed Forces. The dispute had travelled earlier to this Court with the petitioner instituting W.P.(C) 2932/2005 wherein the petitioner had contended that the Bank had incorrectly fixed the initial pay of the petitioner consequent to re-employment. The aforesaid writ petition came to be dismissed by the Cour