Raj Kumar Singh and 3 Others v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy., Horticulture and Food Processing, Lko. and Another

Court No. - 20 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 8725 of 2023 Petitioner :- Raj Kumar Singh And 3 Others Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy., Horticulture And Food Processing, Lko. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Raj Kumar Upadhyaya (R.K.Upadhyaya) Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Mathur,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the State.

¶2Present writ petition is filed by the petitioners claiming that they are entitled for grant of selection grade, promotional pay scale/ACP and arrears of difference of salary with due interest thereon, which are not being granted.

¶3Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the Government has already taken opinion of the Director, Legal Remembrancer and other persons, which all are in favour of the petitioners, but still no final decision is being taken for the benefits being granted to the petitioners and the file is being kept pending on one ground or the other. He further submits that grievance of petitioners would be sufficiently met in case representation of petitioners for the said purposes is considered and decided in a time bound manner.

¶4Learned Standing Counsel has no objection to the same.

¶5In view thereof, petitioners are permitted to make a fresh detailed representation to respondent no.1-State of U.P. through Additional Chief Secretary/Principal Secretary, Horticulture & Fool Processing, U.P., Civil Secretariat, Lucknow, raising all their grievance, annexing therewith a copy of this writ petition along with annexures and all the documents in support of their claim within a period of ten days from today along with a computer generated/certified copy of this order.

¶6In case such a representation is moved by petitioners, respondent no.1 shall consider the same and take a final decision in the matter, in accordance with law by passing a reasoned and speaking order within a period of six weeks from the date a computer generated/certified copy of this order along with representation is placed before him.

¶7It is made clear that this court has not applied itself on the merits of the case and all questions are left open to be considered and decided by the competent authority in accordance with law.

¶8With the aforesaid directions, present writ petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 7.11.2023 Satish High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench