CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER

2 22-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the Respondent-University and learned counsel for the Respondent-State.

2. The petitioner in the present writ application has prayed for the grant of following reliefs:-

“i) For issuance of an appropriate writ in the nature of CERTIORARI for quashing the Pay Verification Letter vide Receipt No.20072206000047 issued by the Authorized Officer of the Education (PVC) Department whereby and where under the Pay Verification Cell of the Education Department reduced the pay-scale of the petitioner from Level -8 to Level-7 and from Rs.70,000 on 01.01.2022 to Rs.64,100 on 01.01.2023 on the ground that it was issued without asking any show-cause notice or opportunity of hearing to the petitioner either by the Pay Verification Cell as well as Respondent University as also contrary to the fixation made by the Statutory Pay Fixation Committee of the Respondent University