IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 20858 of 2010 Date of decision : 28.07.2011 Manjit Singh and others ......Petitioners versus State of Punjab and another ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. R.K. Garg, Advocate for the petitioners Mr. Ram Lal Gupta, Addl. A.G. Punjab **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) The instant petition under Articles 226/227 of the Constitution of India for the issuance of a writ of certiorari, mandamus for quashing the order Annexure P-2 dated 18.09.1992 issued by Government of Punjab granting the revised pay scales to the petitioners w.e.f 01.01.1991 instead of 01.01.1996 to the Agriculture Development Officers, Agriculture/Horticulture Development Officers, Agriculture Officer PAS Class-II (Administrative) in Agriculture Department and Class-II Assistant Director in Horticulture Department, PAS Class-II Officer (Administrative Post) in Agriculture Department and Deputy Directors Class-I in Horticulture Department, whose cadre was merged vide letter dated 18.09.1992 into one cadre. 2. Learned State counsel has not disputed the entitlement of the petitioners for the aforesaid pay scales in view of Prem Singh Gill and others v. State of Punjab. CWP No. 20858 of 2010 -2- 3. It has remained undisputed that the claim made by the petitioners in the instant writ petition has already been sought by other employees of the same department before another Bench of this Court in CWP No. 13615 of 2009 titled as Dr. Yadvinder Singh and others. The aforesaid petition was disposed of by placing reliance on the judgment passed by this Court in CWP No. 457 of 1995 titled as Prem Singh Gill and others v. State of Punjab. Therefore, for the parity of reasoning this petition is allowed in terms of the judgment dated 02.03.2010 rendered in CWP No. 13615 of 2009. 4. Ordered accordingly. July 28, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE