HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN (JAIPUR BENCH)
JUSTICE ANOOP KUMAR DHAND, J
Satish Prakash Gupta S/O Late Shri Shyam Lal Gupta – Appellant
Versus
State of Rajasthan – Respondent
Order :
1. By way of filing the instant petition, a prayer has been made for issuing directions to the respondents to grant the benefit of one annual grade increment to the petitioner as he retired on 30.06.1997 i.e. a day prior to 1st July, 1997.
2. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the controversy involved in this petition has already been set at rest by this Court not only once but twice on two different occasions by deciding two different batch of writ petitions with the lead case of Vijay Singh Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors., S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.21/2020 decided on 21.07.2023 and subsequently the same view was followed by this Court in the case of Ramesh Chandra Sharma Vs. The State of Rajasthan & Ors., S.B. Civil Writ Petition No.10939/2024 decided on 15.07.2024.
3. Counsel submits that while deciding the case of Ramesh Chandra Sharma (supra), the directions issued in the case of Vijay Singh (supra), were made in personam and all the aggrieved persons were directed to approach the State authorities for redressal of their grievances instead of approaching this Court time and again. Counsel submits that in pursuance of the directions issued by this Court in the case of
Entitlement to annual increments upon retirement is based on completed service and good conduct; denial based solely on retirement timing is arbitrary.
Employees entitled to notional increment earned before retirement despite accruing post-retirement, based on satisfactory prior service.
The main legal point established in the judgment is the entitlement of a government servant to receive an increment becoming payable on 1st July even after retirement, as interpreted in various judgm....
The entitlement to the benefit of one increment even after retirement, based on the interpretation of Rule 39 and the purpose of granting annual increment.
The entitlement to receive increment crystallizes when the government servant completes requisite length of service with good conduct and becomes payable on the succeeding day, and denying a governme....
The main legal point established in the judgment is that government servants are entitled to annual increment becoming payable on the succeeding day, even after retirement, and denying this entitleme....
Employees retiring on June 30 are entitled to annual increments effective July 1, as established by recent Supreme Court rulings.
The main legal point established in the judgment is that the entitlement to receive increment crystallizes when the government servant completes requisite length of service with good conduct, and any....
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