JUDGMENT :

MAHESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI, J.

1. Heard Sri Avneesh Tripathi, learned counsel for the appellant-petitioner and Sri Rohan Gupta, learned counsel for the opposite party nos. 2 to 4.

2. Present Special Appeal has arisen from a judgment and order of the learned Single Judge dated 11th March, 2024 passed in Writ Appeal No. 19126 of 2023 (Ram Pratap Singh and another vs. Union of India and others) by which the writ petition filed by the appellant-petitioner has been dismissed.

FACTS

3. The facts giving rise to this appeal in a nutshell are that the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur [IIT-Kanpur] is an engineering institute. Initially, it was a society and subsequently, it was incorporated by the Central Government under the Institutes of Technology Act, 1961. [IT Act, 1961] Initially, the appellant-petitioner was appointed as a Junior Engineer (Trainee) in the pay scale of Rs.1400-2600 in IIT-Kanpur on April 27, 1988 on temporary and adhoc basis for a period of two years from the date of his joining and the said period was extended for a further period of six months vide Office order dated 10.05.1990. Subsequently, his pay scale of Rs.1400-2600 was changed to Rs.5000-8000/-. In Ja