IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CASE NO.: CWP No.2576 of 2007 DATE OF DECISION: March 31, 2008 DULARI RANI ...PETITIONER VERSUS SECRETARY PUNJAB SCHOOL EDUCATON ...RESPONDENTS BOARD & OTHERS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA. HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA. PRESENT: MR. RAM LAL GUPTA, ADVOCATE FOR THE PETITIONER. MR. K.S. SIDHU, ADVOCATE FOR RESPONDENT NOS.1 & 2. MR. YATINDER SHARMA, DAG, PUNJAB. ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA, J.(ORAL) The petitioner has prayed for grant of revised pay scale of Rs.1410-2460/- w.e.f. 1.12.1994 and 4550-7220/- w.e.f. 1.1.1996, as Laboratory Technician Grade II. It has been prayed that her pay be fixed accordingly and the arrears be also paid to her. The petitioner has placed reliance on a judgement (Annexure P-3) which was passed in a similar case. The grant of revised pay scale to the petitioner has been denied to the petitioner vide Annexure P-5 on the ground that the petitioner Ms. Dulari Rani was not the petitioner in another similar writ petition in which similar benefits had been granted to her co-employees. As the identical controversy as the one raised in this writ petition was also raised in CWP No.14095 of 1999 and the same was allowed in terms of the judgements rendered by this Court in CWP No.13425 and 13426 of 1995, therefore, this writ petition is allowed in terms of CWP No.4343 of 2003, decided on August 5, 2003. CWP No.2576 of 2007 -2- As a result of allowing the writ petition the respondents are directed to refix the salary of the petitioner within six months from today in terms of the judgements referred to above. The arrears due to the petitioner for the period of 38 months prior to the filing of the instant writ petition (filed on 19.2.2007) be released to her within one month thereafter. Allowed in the aforesaid terms. (ASHUTOSH MOHUNTA) JUDGE March 31, 2008 (KANWALJIT SINGH AHLUWALIA) Gulati JUDGE