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The prayers in this writ petition are as follows:

“i. Issue a writ of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction calling for records leading to Exhibit P12 and quashing the same.

ii. Issue a writ of mandamus or any other appropriate writ, order or direction commanding respondent/competent authority to pas appropriate orders granting stepping up of pay to the petitioner to the level of the 5th respondent.

iii. Direct the respondents 1 to 3 to take appropriate action on Ext.P10 judgment of this Hon'ble Court submitted by the petitioner before the 3rd respondent and to refix the scale of petitioner as 4750- 7820 w.e.f 1.7.2004 and grant all the consequential benefits.

iv. Declare that the petitioner is eligible for refixation of his pay scale as 4750-7820 with effect from 1.7.2004 and is entitled to draw the consequential benefits.”

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned Government Pleader.

3. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner had been appointed as Last Grade Servant on 6.6.1994 and had been promoted as Lab Attender on 30.3.2009. It is stated that a junior of the petitioner in ser