C.W.P. No.12456 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. C.W.P. No.12456 of 2011 Date of Decision: 18.07.2011 Dr. S.K. Sharma ....Petitioner Versus National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra & anr. ...Respondents CORAM : Hon'ble Ms. Justice Nirmaljit Kaur Present:- Mr. T.D. Garg, Advocate for the petitioner. ***** 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) This is a petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing respondent No.1 to step up the pay of the petitioner equivalent to his junior i.e respondent No.2 in terms of the law laid down in catena of cases. The petitioner is Professor since 18.04.1997. Learned counsel for the petitioner contends that as a consequence of the Sixth Pay Commission, the pay scales of all the faculty members were revised w.e.f. 01.01.2006. After the revision of pay scales, one of his junior was got promoted as Professor under CAS on 18.05.2009. As such, he started drawing more salary than the petitioner even though he was junior to the petitioner. The petitioner had filed a representation asking the Department to remove the anomaly which had cropped up in pay fixation. However, his representation dated 12.10.2009 is still pending. In view of the above, the present petition is disposed of with a C.W.P. No.12456 of 2011 2 direction to the respondents to decide the representation (Annexure P-3) filed by the petitioner as expeditiously as possible preferably within two months from the receipt of a copy of this order. (NIRMALJIT KAUR) 18.07.2011 JUDGE gurpreet