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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE FOR RAJASTHAN BENCH AT JAIPUR D.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 7870/2021 Ambalal Meghwal S/o Late Shri Prabhu Lal, Aged About 60 Years, R/o Behind Senthi Central Academy Ram Nagar, Post Senthi District Chittorgarh Rajasthan At Present C/o Ramhans Meena, C-625, Narayan Sarovar, Kushar Cirlce, Mansarovar, Jaipur.

----Petitioner Versus

1. State Of Rajasthan, Through Principal Secretary, Department Of Medical And Health, Government Of Rajasthan, Government Secretariat Jaipur.

2. Joint Secretary, Finance Department (Rules Division), Government Of Rajasthan, Government Secretariat Jaipur.

3. Director Medical And Health, Government Of Rajasthan Chittorgarh

4. Director Department Of Pension And Pensioners Welfare, Rajasthan, Jaipur.

5. Additional Director Department Of Pension And Pensioners Welfare, Regional Office Udaipur.

----Respondents For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Mahendra Sharma For Respondent(s) : Mr. Aaditya Godara, AAG on behalf of Ms. Mahi Yadav, AAG HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE INDERJEET SINGH HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAVI CHIRANIA

Order

16/02/2026 Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the issue involved in this writ petition has already been considered and decided by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court in the matter of Ramavtar Yadav & Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors. (D.B. Civil Writ Petition No.7833/2020) decided on 13.12.2021, where in it has been held as under:-

In this group of petitions the challenge is to the notification dated 30.10.2017 issued by the State Government by which the Rajasthan Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules 2008 came to be amended. Learned advocates for the parties agreed that the issues are covered by an order dated 25.11.2021 passed in CWP No.5920/2021 in the case of Santosh Sharma and Ors. Vs. State of Rajasthan and Ors. in which the Division Bench has provided as under:-

“In these petitions, the main controversy is with respect to validity and legality of the notification dated 30th October, 2017 issued by the Government of Rajasthan, Department of Finance. Under this notification, the Rajasthan Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 came to be amended.

It is not necessary to go into the details of these amendments. Suffice it to note that thegrievance of the petitioners is that by virtue of these amendments in the revised Pay Rules, with retrospective effect, the grade pay in several cases have been so changed as to deprive the petitioners of actual benefits of Assured Career Progression Scheme. Since in some cases, the Government has also initiated recoveries on the basis of these amendments, the petitioners had also prayed for interim protection. In some cases where recoveries have commenced, the Court has protected the petitioners. In some cases of the pensioners recoveries in part or full may have been made.

The learned Advocate General stated that such protection against non-petitioners has also been ordered in cases of those persons who are affected by these amendments.

Today, when this group of petitions was taken up for hearing, the learned Advocate General tendered an affidavit dated 25th November 2021 filed by one Shri Mangi Lal, Officer-in-Charge of the respondents, in which it is stated that the State Government is considering all the issues with respect to the notification and for such purpose a Committee has been constituted under order dated 05.08.2021. The scope of this Committee involves other issues but one of them being the question of grant of ACP benefits to the Government employees. It is stated that such Committee will take into account the issues arising out the amendments made by notification dated 30th October, 2017. According to the learned Advocate General, this will take about three months time. Till then, no further recoveries would be made on the basis of the said notification.

In our opinion, when the Government, on its own, is considering the multiple issues arising out of the said notification, it would not be proper on our part to exa