IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.15758 of 1996 (O&M) Date of Decision:23.12.2011 Ashwani Kumar and others .... Petitioners Versus State of Haryana and others . .. Respondents CORAM: Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present: Mr. V.K. Jindal, Advocate and Mr. Rishi Pal Rana, Advocate for the petitioners. Mr. Anjum Ahmed, Addl. A.G. Haryana. **** 1.Whether Reporters of Local Newspapers 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? NIRMALJIT KAUR, J. (Oral) The prayer in the present petition is for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to remove the anamolies in the pay scale of Sub Inspector (Audit) Co-operative Department Haryana and to grant the petitioners and other Sub Inspectors (Audits) same or more scale of pay as being given to the corresponding post in the other department of Haryana Government like Local funds and Food and Civil Supplies Department etc. of the Government of Haryana. Learned counsel for the petitioners on an earlier date had placed on record Annexure P-8 which is the recommendation of the CWP No.15758 of 1996 (O&M) -2- High Powered Committee as well as Annexure P-9 which is the representation of the employees before the Pay Anamolies Authority and recommended by the Registrar to the Finance Department. Accordingly, this Court vide order dated 20.12.2011 adjourned the matter for today i.e. 23.12.2011 to enable the learned State counsel to seek instructions as to whether the Government has taken a final decision with respect to the same or not and that in case the decision had not been taken, then time required by the Government to decide the same. Today, learned State counsel has placed on record letter dated 22.12.2011 on behalf of the Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary to Government of Haryana, Finance Department. As per the said letter, there is no proposal of Administrative Department pending with the Finance Department as the Finance Department had already conveyed its decision vide UO No.1/18/2006-4PR(FD), dated 10.10.2008. It is further stated in the said letter that representation of the employees before the Pay Anomalies Committee, is still under consideration and the same will be disposed of in due course. In spite of the direction of this Court to seek instructions as to how much time will be required by the Government to decide the same, no specific time period has been stated in this letter. In view of the above, this Court deems it appropriate to dispose of the present writ petition with a direction to the respondents to decide the said representation (Annexure P-9) as expeditiously as possible preferably within 4 months from the receipt of this order. In case the petitioners are entitled for the relief claimed, the same shall be released to them immediately thereafter. However, it goes without CWP No.15758 of 1996 (O&M) -3- saying, in the case the prayer is rejected, the respondents shall pass a speaking order. 23.12.2011 ( NIRMALJIT KAUR ) rajeev JUDGE