JUDGMENT

Dr. B.R. Sarangi, J. - The petitioner, who was working as Additional Commissioner of Commercial Tax and Goods and Service Tax (Revenue) in the Commissionerate of the Commercial Tax and Goods and Service Tax, has filed this writ petition seeking to quash the letter dated 14.07.2020 under Annexure-3 rejecting his representations dated 08.01.2020 and 17.03.2020 to treat the next date of retirement i.e., 01.01.2020 as the date of grant of notional increment for the purpose of pensionary benefits, in compliance of direction given by this Court, vide order dated 27.05.2020 in W.P.(C) No. 11642 of 2020, and further seeks for a direction to grant notional increment for the period from 01.01.2019 to 31.12.2019 by treating the next date of increment, i.e., 01.01.2020 as the date of grant of notional increment for the purpose of pensionary benefits.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in hand, is that by following due procedure of selection, the petitioner was appointed and joined in service under the Government of Odisha on 17.10.1988 and subsequently promoted from time to time. His date of birth being 01.01.1960, on attaining the age of superannuation, he retired on 31.12.2019. He wa