2025 Supreme(Online)(UK) 972133
HIGH COURT OF UTTARAKHAND
SANT PRASAD UPADHYAY – Appellant
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STATE OF UTTARAKHAND – Respondent
WPSS 1671 / 2025
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WPSS 1671/ 2025
Hon’ble Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.
Mr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey,
Advocate, for the petitioner.
Mr. Rajeev Singh Bisht, Additional
CSC, for the State.
Mr. Lalit Samant, Advocate, for
the respondent no. 2 and 3.
(2) Petitioner was appointed in Provincial Cooperative Federation, Uttar Pradesh in the year 1991 and he retired from service in 2019 from Uttarakhand Cooperative Federation. According to him, certain monetary benefits, which were paid to every other similarly situate employee, has not been paid to him. By means of this writ petition, petitioner has sought the
following reliefs:
“a) Issue a writ order or direction
in the nature Mandamus commanding and directing the respondents to pay the entire arrears of benefits of yearly annual increment granted time to time, along with increment on completion of 14 years, 20 years and 28 years service and grade pay benefits and also the benefits of 7th pay commission, at par with similarly situated employees from 01.07.2005 to June 2019
along with interest.
b) Issue a writ order or direction
in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to decide the representation of
petitioner.”
(3) Learned Counsel for the petitioner refers to a judgment rendered by Division Bench of Lucknow Bench of Hon’ble Allahabad High Court in Special Appeal No.
172 of 2024, which was reportedly affirmed by Hon’ble Supreme Court. By relying on said judgment, learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that liability to pay the monetary benefits to petitioner is of Uttarakhand Cooperative Federation.
(4) Learned Counsel appearing for Uttarakhand Cooperative Federation submits that petitioner has made a representation, which is on record as Annexure-8 to the writ petition, therefore the competent authority be directed to take decision on the said representation.
(5) Writ petition is, accordingly, disposed of with a direction to Managing Director, Uttarakhand Cooperative Federation, Dehradun to take decision on petitioner’s representation dated 22.1.2025, as per law, within six weeks from the date of production of certified copy of this order.
(Manoj Kumar Tiwari, J.)
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