ORDER :

1. Petitioner is a Municipality constituted under the provisions of Gujarat Municipalities Act, 1963. This petitioner approached this Court through its Chief Officer challenging the validity and legality of the award dated 30.04.2010 passed by the Industrial Tribunal, Bhavnagar in Reference (IT) No.50 of 1996, whereby the Court had given the direction to the petitioner to give the difference in the pay scale from 20.07.1996 to 06.10.2009 to the respondent for his having held the additional charge of the Light Inspector, while continued to have worked as wireman. The respondent worked on a permanent post of a wireman in Botad Municipality. Person, who held the post of Light Inspector retired and, therefore, the respondent had been given the charge of the Light Inspector on 23.07.1996 and he continued to hold the said charge till he attained the age of superannuation on 31.10.2013. After having worked for 2 years as a Light Inspector, while continuing to hold his own charge of a wireman, he had preferred a Reference(IT) No.50 of 1996, where oral evidence came to be adduced by the respondent. He was also crossexamined and the petitioner chose not to adduce any oral evidence. Af