C.W.P. No. 6313 of 1991 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH -.- C.W.P. No. 6313 of 1991 Date of decision:- May 25, 2011 Satyawan Singh & Ors. ... Petitioners Versus The State of Haryana & Anr. ... Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE GURDEV SINGH Present:- Mr. K.C.Bhatia, Addl. A.G., Haryana Gurdev Singh, J (oral) Heard. This petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India is for the issuance of a writ of mandamus directing the respondents to grant revised scales of pay to the petitioners, who are work-charged employees of Haryana P.W.D Public Health and Building and Roads etc., from the date the revised pay scales were given to the regular employees of these Departments i.e.1.2.1969 on the basis of the First Pay Commission report and for further directing them to pay all the arrears of salary resulting from the grant of revised pay scales. They have also prayed the writ of mandamus for directing the respondents to grant them further revised pay scales w.e.f 1.4.1979, the date on which the second revision of pay scales were allowed to the regular employees of these departments with the further direction to pay the arrears of salary on the basis of the revised pay scales. Similarly situated work-charged employees of these departments C.W.P. No. 6313 of 1991 -2- filed Civil Writ Petition No. 6044 of 1983 for the issuance of the same directions by way of writ of mandamus. The facts of both the cases are the same and same question of law is involved. That writ petition was allowed by this Court vide order dated 2.6.1989. A perusal of that order shows that the petitioners, who filed that writ petition were allowed the revised pay scales from 1.4.1979 and the writ petition was admitted only with regard to the second pay revision w.e.f. 1.4.1979. Those petitioners were held to be entitled to the grant of revised pay scales from 1979, the date on which the recommendations of the pay commission was accepted by the Government and the writ petition was allowed in those terms. The State filed SLP No. 3449 of 1992 against that order, which was dismissed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court vide order dated 6.9.1993. In view of the fact that the similar facts and the same question of law is involved in the present writ petition the same is to be decided in accordance with the order passed in the above said writ petition. Accordingly, it is held that the petitioners are entitled to the grant of revised pay scales from 1979 i.e. from the date the recommendations of the pay commission were accepted by the Government. The writ petition is disposed of accordingly. May 25, 2011 (Gurdev Singh) tripti Judge