JUDGMENT :

Heard the parties.

2. Petitioner has approached this Court with a prayer for quashing the order dated 13.02.2017, passed by the Revisional Authority (respondent No. 2), affirming the orders passed by the disciplinary authority and appellate authority, by which the salary of the petitioner has been reduced by one increment for one year with further direction that he will not earn increment of pay during this period of one year and that on expiry of this period, the reduction in pay will have the effect of postponing his future increment.

Petitioner has further prayed that after quashment of the above orders, the respondents may be directed to pay all consequential benefits along with interest.

3. As per the factual matrix, the petitioner was appointed to the post of Constable on 14.01.2013 at Central Industrial Security Force (for short ‘CISF’) Unit, Kargali. Thereafter, the petitioner has worked to the full satisfaction of the respondents and not a single adverse remark has ever been made against him, save and except the present one. It is the case of the petitioner that he applied for leave for 3 days which was duly sanctioned by the competent authority and the petitioner w