IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.4158 of 2008 KUSHESHWAR JHA . Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR &ORS . ----------- 2. 24.08.2010 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Counsel for the State. The petitioner was appointed as a Tool Clerk in the work charged establishment of the Water Resources Department. He was regularised on 8.9.1981 and periodic revision of pay in pursuance of Pay Revision Committee reports also made. It is his case that the post of Tool Clerk was converted into the post of Lower Division Clerk pursuant to which the petitioner became Lower Division Clerk by an order dated 12.11.1987. He was then granted lst time bound promotion also. The respondents on 31.12.2007 demoted him to his post of Tool Clerk and thereby reducing his pay scale also and directing recovery. During pendency of the writ application the respondents have issued a fresh order dated 8.7.2010 restoring the petitioner to the post of Lower Division Clerk in the scale of Rs. 4000- 6000/- with effect from 1.1.1996. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that in that view of the matter all deductions made from his salary pursuant to his reversion to the post of Tool Clerk now undone is required to be returned to the petitioner. He is also entitled to protection of his lst time bound promotion as given earlier. This Court finds sufficient justification in the claim of the petitioner for grant of reasonable interest on the deductions which can be said to have been wrongly made after his reversion to the post of Tool Clerk. The respondents have themselves undone the wrong but only partially. In order to do full justice to the petitioner the respondents are required to consider his prayer for grant of reasonable interest as a necessary part of the order dated 8.7.2010. The writ application is disposed with a direction to the Executive Engineer, Irrigation Mechanical Division, Birpur, Supaul, to pass appropriate orders on the claim for interest made out by the petitioner with regard to the deductions now found to have been wrongly made for the period that the respondents wrongfully retained what was legitimately money of the petitioner. Let the same be done and appropriate consequential orders passed within a maximum period of two months from the date of receipt and/or presentation of a copy of this order. The writ application stands disposed. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)