WP(C) 1011/2011 BEFORE THE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B.K. SHARMA The petitioner is aggrieved by non-payment of her salary since June, 200 9. She was appointed on compassionate ground in the year 2000 (14.07.2000). Her salary has been stopped on the ground that she was appointed by the BTC authorit y without consulting the DLC and SLC. The said two committees were constituted p ursuant to judgment and order passed in Achyut Ranjan Das vs. State of Assam and others reported in 2006 (4) GLT 674. Thus, naturally the directions and guidel ines issued therein cannot be have any retrospective effect. At the time of appo intment of the petitioner in the year 2000 the said two committees were not in e xistence which came into force only pursuant to the direction contained in Achyu t Ranjan Das (supra). In view of the above, I see no reason as to why the Finance Department a nd the BTC had stopped the salary of the petitioner. Situated thus, the writ pet ition is disposed of directing the respondents including the Finance Department to clear the salary of the petitioner, both arrear and current, as expeditiously as possible but at any rate not later than February, 2012. The writ petition is allowed. However, there shall be no order as to cos ts.