HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI W.P.No.22035 of 2001 Date : 25-11-2010 Between : N.Rajan .. Petitioner And The General Manager, H.M.T. Machine Tools Limited, Machine Tools Division, HMT Township, R.R.District, Hyderabad-500 054. .. Respondent HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE NOUSHAD ALI W.P.No.22035 of 2001 ORDER: The petitioner was the employee of HMT Ltd., the respondent herein. The respondent introduced special Voluntary Retirement Scheme, pursuant to which petitioner took voluntary retirement. It is his case that he is entitled for revised scales of pay, but the respondent failed to pay the same immediately after the retirement on the ground that the company was running in loss and the arrears would be paid as and when profit is earned. Aggrieved by the same, the petitioner has filed this Writ Petition to declare the action of the Respondent in not releasing the pay revision arrears amount of Rs.40,000/- (approximately) to him on the date of his retirement on 31-03-2001 under Company’s Voluntary Retirement Scheme as illegal and to consequently direct to pay the arrears as per his entitlement. It appears that similar grievance was a subject matter of dispute in the High Court of Karnataka. It is stated that the High Court of Karnataka granted the relief in favour of those petitioners. It is also stated that similar relief was also granted by this Court. The respondents carried the matter in appeal to the Supreme Court and the matter ultimately ended in the respondents giving an undertaking to the Apex Court that the entire arrears of all the employees concerned would be cleared in a phased manner according to the seniority of retirement. In the counter-affidavit filed in this Writ Petition it is stated that the Company till today disbursed total amount of Rs.28.81 crores to all the employees who had retired up to February, 1999 and the petitioner will also be paid the said arrears in the order of seniority. The said statement is placed on record and the Respondent is directed to pay the entire arrears payable to the petitioner as per the seniority of retirement. The Writ Petition is accordingly disposed of. There shall be no order as to costs. ________________ NOUSHAD ALI, J. 25th November, 2010. skmr