1. The petitioner is claiming monetary benefit of the posts of Associate Professor and Professor which has been paid to others w.e.f. 15.11.2000. He is also seeking grant of interest @ 12% till actual payment of arrears of difference of salary and other consequential benefits is made to him.

2. In view of the counter-affidavit, whereby the claim of the petitioner has been denied, the prayer seeking a direction upon the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Health Education, Research and Family Welfare, Government of Jharkhand for “payment of admitted monetary benefit” is liable to be rejected, as the claim raised by the petitioner has not been admitted by the respondents. Consequently, prayer at clause (a) is dismissed in part. In so far as, claim of payment of interest @ 12% is concerned, the learned counsel for the petitioner has relied on a decision in “State of U.P. and Another vs. Vinod Kumar Srivastava” reported in (2006) 9 SCC 621. In the said case after the claim of the respondent-employee who was held entitled for promotion with retrospective effect was allowed interest on the arrears of salary by the High Court. The Supreme Court interfered with the order awarding interest.