JUDGMENT

Dr. B.R. Sarangi, J. - The Petitioner, who was working as Salaried Amin under the District Judge, Cuttack (re- engaged after superannuation), has filed this writ petition seeking to quash the letter no.4009 dated 12.05.2014, as at Annexure-6, by which the Government of Orissa in Law Department observed that the Salaried Amins and Drivers of Subordinate Judiciary are not entitled to get one increment in pursuance of Law Department Resolution No. 10077/L dated 13.09.2012. The petitioner also seeks to quash the order dated 26.05.2017 at Annexure-11 rejecting the representation filed by All Orissa Judicial Employees Association regarding giving benefit of one advance increment to the Salaried Amins working in the Subordinate Judiciary, and to hold that the petitioner is entitled to get one advance increment like other staff in the ministerial cadre of the Subordinate Judiciary and accordingly his pension/family pension is to be processed and released within a stipulated time. The petitioner also further prayed to direct the opposite parties not to recover the amount paid to him by grant of one advance increment.

2. The genesis of the case revolves around the fact that this High