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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN AT

JODHPUR

S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 2435/2024

1. Manju Mothasara W/o Shri Susheel Kumar, Aged About 34

Years, R/o Village Khairoo Chhoti, Post Khairu Bari, Tehsil

Rajgarh, District Churu. Presently Posted As School

Lecturer, Geography.

2. Indu Bala Chouhan D/o Shri Jagdish Prasad Chouhan,

Aged About 35 Years, R/o H. No- 494/13, Street No-12,

Shubhash Nagar, Ajmer, Rajasthan. Presently Posted As

School Lecturer , Geography.

----Petitioners

Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through The Secretary, Department

Of Education, Government Of Rajasthan, Jaipur,

Rajasthan.

2. The Director, Secondary Education, Bikaner, District

Bikaner, Rajasthan.

3. The Secretary, Rajasthan Public Service Commission,

Ajmer, Rajasthan.

----Respondents

For Petitioner(s) : Mr. M.L. Deora

For Respondent(s) : Mr. Bhupesh Charan for

Mr. N.K. Mehta, AGC

Dr. Praveen Khandelwal, AAG

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE MUNNURI LAXMAN

Order

29/01/2026

1. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the parties submit

that the controversy involved in the present writ petition is

squarely covered vide order dated 12.01.2026 as modified on

20.01.2026 passed in S.B. Writ Misc. Application

No.37/2026 : Jitendra Kumar & Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan

& Anr.

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2. The relevant paragraph of the order dated

12.01.2026/20.01.2026 (modified) reads as follows:

“14. In the result, the writ petitions are allowed

The actions of respondents in unequal fixation of pay

among the persons selected and appointed in the

same recruitment process based on their dates of

joining are set aside. The respondents have to treat

all such candidates as a single unit for grant of

annual grade increments whether, they have joined

prior to 30.06.2017 or subsequent to 30.06.2017.

Any anomaly arising due to adoption of such

improper dates of joining for the purpose of granting

one annual grade increment among the candidates

appointed in the same recruitment shall be

rationalized and shall be corrected. For this purpose,

if any correction is required to be carried out by the

respondents, they may make necessary corrections

in their official records in the matter of grant of

annual grade increment after giving notice to

affected parties. The respondents are directed to

carry out the needful exercise after hearing all the

parties concerned, within a period of one month

from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.”

3. The facts in the present case reflect that the petitioners

challenge the action of the respondents in not granting the parity

of this case and incremental benefits at par with the persons

selected in the same recruitment on account of delay in joining

after 30.06.2017. The same was considered by this Court in the

aforesaid order dated 12.01.2026/20.01.2026 (modified).

4. In view of the aforesaid, the present writ petition is also

allowed in same terms as in Jitendra Kumar’s case (supra) and

the impugned order 29.08.2023 (Annex.7) is set aside and the

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relevant Rule of the Rajasthan Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules,

2017, which creates an anomaly in the grant of increment and

consequential fixation of pay scale on account of different joining

times in the same recruitment, has to be read as the common

date of the candidates selected in the same recruitment, ignoring

the date of joining, and granting uniform increments and relevant

pay scales without discriminating among persons in the same

recruitment.

(MUNNURI LAXMAN),J

279s-PoonamS/-

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