JUDGMENT :

The brief facts of the case are that the petitioner was enrolled after being appointed on the post of the Driver with the respondent department, with his initial posting which was made on 2nd November 1977, when he was posted at SSB, Teju, Arunachal Pradesh, and after completing his satisfactory training, and during the tenor of his services, he was thereafter posted at different SSB centres, where he performed his duties. As per the scheme of extension of benefit of ACP, a regular member of the service, who has rendered 10 years, 20 years or 30 years of satisfactory services respectively, on completion of the aforesaid breakup of the services, would be entitled for the grant of the benefits of first ACP, second ACP and third ACP.

2. The grievance of the petitioner is, that as per his year of induction into the services and after rendering of his services with the respondent, which he contends, that it was satisfactory, he would be entitled for the grant of benefit of 3rd ACP, after 30 years of his satisfactory services, which he contends to have completed on 1st September 2008, but he was deprived of being granted with the grade pay of Rs.4200, which according to the peti