IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT JABALPUR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE VIVEK JAIN

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ON THE 16 OF OCTOBER, 2025 WRIT PETITION No. 969 of 2025 SURESH PAL Versus THE STATE OF M.P. AND OTHERS Appearance:

Shri Ashok Kumar Gupta - Advocate for the petitioner.

Shri Avnish Kharti - Panel Lawyer for the State.

Shri Jubin Prasad - Panel Lawyer for the respondent No.3.

ORDER By way of present petition, the petitioner is challenging the recovery ordered from the petitioner vide Annexure P/5 dated 12.12.2024 to the tune of Rs.2,17,581/- which is by way of withdrawal of erroneous grant of financial upgradation granted to the petitioner in the year 2004, which was detected in the year 2024, that is, after 20 years.

2. The case of the petitioner is that the petitioner is a Class-IV employee working as Keyman in Municipal Corporation, Khandwa and he was granted the erroneous financial upgradation without there being any misrepresentation or suppression or fraud on part of the petitioner. He continued to draw the erroneous benefit for 20 years and only when there was some audit in the year 2024, the amount has been ordered to be recovered. He contends that he is not aggrieved by the substantive reduc