JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Appeal filed under Clause 15 of Letters Patent against the order dated 23.12.2021 in W.P. No.7296 of 2020.

Common Judgment

Paresh Upadhyay, J.

1. Challenge in this group of appeals is made to the order dated 25.12.2021 recorded on group of writ petitions being W.P.No.7307 of 2020 and cognate petitions. The respondents in the writ petitions are in appeal.

2. Learned Additional Advocate General has submitted that, the learned single Judge was in error while arriving at the conclusion that, the order of revision of pay and also the consequential recovery was unsustainable. It is submitted that, according to appellant authorities, the writ petitioners were granted higher scale erroneously - against the policy of the State and having realised the same, as pointed out by the audit authorities, corrective steps were taken and no exception ought to  have been made therein. It is noted that, the learned Additional Advocate General has taken this Court extensively through the G.Os on record so also the reasoning recorded by learned single Judge and the final conclusion arrived at in para 96 of the order under challenge. It is submitted that, the revision of pay, in the facts of