JUDGMENT :

JASGURPREET SINGH PURI , J.

The present civil writ petition has been filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking a writ in the nature of certiorari to quash the decision dated 17.07.2020 (Annexure P-5) by which the additional charge of Director, State Council of Educational Research & Training, Haryana, Gurugram (hereinafter called as ‘Director, SCERT, Haryana, Gurugram’) has been ordered to be given to respondent No.3, with a further prayer to declare respondent No.3 to be not eligible for taking the additional charge of Director, SCERT, Haryana, Gurugram.

2. A brief factual matrix which has led to filing of the present petition is that the petitioner was promoted as Additional Director in the pay scale of schedule-I pay matrix of HSC (Revised Pay Scale) 2016 vide Annexure P-1 dated 28.12.2017. Thereafter, on 11.12.2019 vide Annexure P-2 the petitioner was given additional charge of Director, SCERT, Haryana, Gurugram in addition to her present duties and no additional remuneration was to be paid to her. However, vide impugned order Annexure P-5, a deci