IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

228 CWP-9025-2019 (O&M)

Date of decision: 08.01.2025 Gopal Singh and others ...Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE AMAN CHAUDHARY *****

Present: Mr. Nitesh Singla, Advocate for the petitioners.

Mr. Sehajbir Singh Aulakh, AAG, Punjab.

Ms. Deepika Bagri, Advocate for Mr. Anupam Singla, Advocate for respondent No.4.

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AMAN CHAUDHARY, J. (Oral)

1. Prayer made in the present petition for quashing of the order dated 24.11.2016 (Annexure P5) and directing the respondents to protect the pay scale of the petitioners, they being in service on 01.01.1996.

2. Reliance is placed on the judgment passed in the case of Anil Kumar and others vs. State of Punjab and others, CWP-22422-2010, decided on 16.05.2012, which read thus:-

“The dispute raised in the petition is whether the petitioners are entitled to protection of the pay they were drawing on 1.1.96 or not. Admittedly the petitioners were promoted as Junior Assistants on 1.1.96. On 19.5.1998 the Punjab Civil Service (Revised Pay)(First Amendment) Rules, 1998 were promulgated which were deemed to have come into force w.e.f. 1.1.96. As per these ru