IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. L.P.A. No.1342 of 2009(O&M) Date of decision: 12.01.2010 The State of Punjab & another. -----Appellants Vs. Seetal Kaur and others. -----Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ADARSH KUMAR GOEL HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK SINGH Present:- Ms. Rita Kohli, Addl.A.G., Punjab. for the appellant. Mr. R.K. Chopra, Sr. Advocate with Ms. Maninder Kaur, Advocate for respondents/caveators. --- ORDER: 1. This appeal has been preferred against order of learned Single Judge, directing grant of benefit of pay scale to the respondent-writ petitioners in accordance with order dated 20.3.1998, Annexure P-8. Order dated 4.6.1998, Annexure P-9, denying the said benefit, has been quashed. 2. The writ petitioners were working as Junior Mistresses in Government Industrial Schools. They were later designated as Instructors. They claimed pay scale of Rs.1800-3200/- at par with the Craft Instructors. Vide order dated 28.11.1995 passed in LPA No.1342 of 2009 C.W.P. No.1748 of 1995, a Division Bench of this Court allowed the said benefit w.e.f. 1.1.1986. Against the said order SLP of the State was dismissed. However, by passing the impugned order, the department sought to limit the benefit to period after 13.5.1991 to the writ petitioners, which they challenged. State sought to defend its order by stating that the writ petitioners belonged to a different class, which plea was found to be untenable. Learned Single Judge held that the posts were inter- transferable and the petitioners were in the same common seniority. Same view was earlier taken on 24.3.2009 in C.W.P. No.2208 of 1989 Lekh Raj Khera and others v. State of Punjab and another. 3. We have heard learned counsel for the parties. 4. Learned counsel for the appellants has not been able to show any error in the finding of the learned Single Judge that the writ petitioners were at par with the Craft Instructors, who were placed in the scale of Rs.1800-3200/- w.e.f. 1.1.1986. 5. This being the situation, there is no ground to interfere with the view taken by learned Single Judge. 6. The appeal is dismissed. (ADARSH KUMAR GOEL) JUDGE January 12, 2010 ( ALOK SINGH ) ashwani JUDGE 2