IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

207+238 Date of decision: 03.07.2025

1) CWP-17162-2000 (O&M)

R.K. Wadhawan vs. State of Punjab and others

2) CWP-17516-2000 (O&M)

R.P. Jindal and others vs. State of Punjab and others CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE AMAN CHAUDHARY *****

Present : Mr. Mandeep Singh, Advocate for Mr. R.K. Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner(s) in both cases.

Ms. Shruti, AAG, Punjab.

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AMAN CHAUDHARY, J. (ORAL)

1. Both cases involve similar issues and therefore, are being disposed of together by this common judgment, for the sake of convenience the facts are derived from CWP-17162-2000.

2. Prayer made in the present petition is for quashing the order dated 10.08.2000.

3. Learned counsel submits that the petitioner was granted the selection grade w.e.f. 20.09.1982, the cadre of the Assistant Town Planner, which was withdrawn after more than a decade, which, while issuing notice of motion, the Division Bench vide order dated 13.12.2000 had stayed. He, on instructions from the petitioner(s), restricts his prayer to only recovery ordered by relying on the policy/instructions dated 20.01.2017 and the judgment of the Hon’ble Supreme Court in Jogeshwar Sahoo and others