CWP No. 3518 of 2008 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CWP No. 3518 of 2008 Date of decision: November 12, 2008 Rajinder Pal --- Petitioner Versus Managing Director, Pepsu Road Transport Corporation & another ---- Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Ashutosh Mohunta Hon'ble Mr. Justice Rajan Gupta Present: Mr. RS Chauhan, Advocate, for the petitioner. Ashutosh Mohunta, J (Oral). By this order, we intend to dispose of 8 cases i.e. CWP Nos. 14967 of 2007, 3518 of 2008, 5958 of 2008, 7153 of 2008, 9093 of 2008, 12674 of 2008, 16262 of 2008 and 16524 of 2008 as common questions of law and facts are involved. For brevity the facts are derived from CWP No.3518 of 2008. The petitioner, who was working as an Inspector in the Pepsu Road Transport Corporation ( hereinafter to be called 'PRTC') made a request to his Department that he may be granted the same pay as one Surjit Singh junior to him was drawing. Accordingly he was equated with said Surjit Singh w.e.f. the year 1990. Subsequently, it was found that the pay of Surjit Singh was wrongly fixed. The same was re-fixed and was reduced. Consequently, pay of the petitioner was also re-fixed and was reduced from Rs. 6600/- to Rs.6400/- to bring him at par with Surjit Singh, vide order dated 19-9-2000 vide order Annexure P2. Since then, the petitioner has never challenged the order of re-fixation of his pay. The same has now been challenged CWP No. 3518 of 2008 2 through the present writ petition. The petitioner had himself made a request that his pay be brought at par with Surjit Singh Inspector. Acceding to his request, he was brought at par with the latter. Since it was found subsequently that the pay of Surjit Singh had been wrongly fixed, the same was re-fixed and reduced. Now the petitioner cannot get higher pay than Surjit Singh. The petitioner had earlier filed a Civil Writ Petition No. 6165 of 2004, which was disposed of vide order dated 3-5-2004 ( Annexure P4) and recovery sought to be effected from the petitioner was quashed. However, no orders were passed with regard to the reduction in pay. In view of the above, since the pay of the petitioner had been re-fixed to bring him at par with Surjit Singh Inspector and the pay of Surjit Singh has been subsequently reduced on re-fixation, the pay of the petitioner has been rightly re-fixed and reduced vide order Annexure P2. In view of the foregoing discussion, we find no merit in these writ petitions. The same are hereby dismissed. [Ashutosh Mohunta] Judge [Rajan Gupta] Judge November 12, 2008 `ask'