IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.14807 of 2009 Date of Decision: July 22, 2010 Smt.Rajvati ...Petitioner VERSUS State of Haryana & others ...Respondents Present: Mr.R.N.Sharma, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr.Harish Rathee, Sr.DAG, Haryana, for the State. ***** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner claims that she is entitled to higher pay scale on the basis of law laid down in Civil Writ Petition No.6599 of 2007 (Shakuntla Devi & others Vs. State of Haryana & others), which was allowed on 4.3.2008. The JST Grade was allowed to all those employees who had acquired higher qualification and the same had been allowed to them on the basis of approach made before this court. This position is not in any serious dispute. However, the stand in the reply is that the petitioner has been granted JST Grade twice and accordingly action is being taken to recover the benefit which has passed on to the petitioner twice. The counsel for the petitioner joins issues in this regard with the State counsel and refers to Annexures R-1 and R-2 to show that earlier the petitioner was granted JST Grade from the date of her regular appointment, whereas subsequently through Annexure R-2 the same benefit has been granted to her from the date she was appointed on adhoc basis. The counsel accordingly contends that this would not mean Civil Writ Petition No.14807 of 2009 : 2 : that the petitioner has been granted the JST Grade twice. This appears to be the position. Accordingly, it cannot be said that the petitioner has been granted the JST Grade twice, for which there would be justification to withdraw the same. The relief claimed by the petitioner, thus, is squarely covered by the ratio of law laid down in Shakuntla Devi's case (supra). Accordingly, the impugned order, Annexure P-5, withdrawing the JST Grade granted to the petitioner cannot be sustained and the same is set-aside. Directions, therefore, are issued to the respondents to revise the pay scale of the petitioner accordingly and not to withdraw the JST Grade allowed to the petitioner in compliance with the order earlier passed by this court, copy of which has been annexure P-2. The writ petition is accordingly disposed of. July 22, 2010 ( RANJIT SINGH ) ramesh JUDGE