THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE PULLA KARTHIK

ORDER:

This Writ Petition (TR) is filed seeking to set aside the impugned proceedings No.V3/4218/2013 dated 15.05.2013 issued by respondent No.1 as illegal, arbitrary, violative of principles of natural justice.

2. Heard Sri M. Bharath Shah, learned counsel, representing Sri K.R. Srinivas, learned counsel for the petitioner, and learned Government Pleader for Services-I, appearing on behalf of the respondents.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner had retired from service as a Superintendent in respondent No.1 office on 30.09.2012, on attaining the age of superannuation. While so, on 15.05.2013, respondent No.1 issued the present impugned proceedings, proposing to recover an amount of Rs.3,47,165/- from the petitioner, on the alleged ground of wrong fixation of petitioner’s pay in the 1993-Pay Scales, w.e.f., 14.11.1994. However, the said recovery is proposed to be initiated after a long lapse of almost (15) years, that too, for no fault of the petitioner, as he never misrepresented any facts. Further, in gross violation of the principles of natural justice, the present impugned proceedings were issued, without even is