IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.4524 of 2009 Date of decision: 19.01.2010 Mohinder Singh and another ….Petitioners versus The Punjab State Electricity Board, The Mall, Patiala and another. …Respondents CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN ---- Present: Mr. Amit Chopra, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr. Parminder Singh, Advocate, for the respondents. ---- 1. Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2. To be referred to the reporters or not ? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest ? ---- K.Kannan, J. (Oral) 1. The claim by the petitioners are that their scales of pay must be stepped up to the scale which the petitioners’ junior draw. This point relating to same administration has been decided by this Court in Civil Writ Petition No.13466 of 1999 and it has been held, while allowing the writ petition that there are two streams of arriving at a post namely, through promotion and direct recruitment. There cannot be different scales of pay. I hasten to accept the same reasoning as has been adopted by this Court. Civil Writ Petition No.4524 of 2009 - 2 - 2. The learned counsel for the respondents states that the decision of this Court has been assailed in SLP before the Hon’ble Supreme Court and that, in my view, need not detain me from granting the petitioners the relief which is sought for. I direct that the petitioners shall be entitled to stepping up of their pay equal to the one being drawn by the junior namely, Gurmit Singh, Telephone Mechanic, with effect from the date when his junior started drawing the higher scale than the petitioners. The petitioners are also be entitled to all the consequential benefits such as, fixation of pay, arrears etc. 3. The writ petition is allowed on the above terms. (K.KANNAN) JUDGE 19.01.2010 sanjeev