IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.14143 of 2010 Mangla Prasad S/o Late Janak Lal, resident of Rampur Chit, P.S. Chit Baragaon, Distt. Ballia Uttar Pradesh. At present residing at Janak Niket, Near Hudco Quarters, West Patel Nagar, P.S. Shastri Nagar, Distt. Patna Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through Secretary, Urban Development, Govt. of Bihar, Patna 2. Patna Municipal Corporation, through Commissioner- cum- Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation, Patna 3. Commissioner-cum- Chief Executive Officer, Patna Municipal Corporation, Patna 4. Executive Officer, Nutan Rajdani Anchal Patna Municipal Corporation, Patna 02/ 27.08.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the Patna Municipal Corporation (hereinafter referred to as the PMC). 2. Petitioner superannuated while serving as Section Officer in the PMC. He has filed the writ application praying inter alia to direct the authorities of the PMC to grant him arrears of difference of salary in the revised scale of 1640- 2900/-, which was approved by the PMC under memo no. 438 dated 11.9.2000 and another memo no. 440 dated 11.9.2000, Annexures-3 and 4 to this application. 3. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that Sri Parmanand Singh, P.A. to the Administrator, Sri Kamleshwari Poddar, Senior Assistant Accountant and Kishori Mahto, Vaccinator have been allowed the revised scale, but the petitioner has been ignored. In this connection reliance has been placed on the order of the High Court dated 28.8.2007, Annexure-5, whereunder this Court in the case of Niraj Kumar Verma observed that revised scale has been allowed to those who are near to the powers and petitioner and others are being ignored. 4. Having heard counsel for the petitioner and the PMC, I - 2 - direct the petitioner to represent before the Commissioner of the PMC requesting the Commissioner to grant him revised scale in terms of the order bearing Memo no. 438 dated 11.9.2000, Annexure-3 and such request be considered in the light of the observations of the High Court contained in order dated 28.8.2007, Annexure-5 as also the fact that Parmanand Singh, Kamleshwari Poddar and Kishori Mahto have already been allowed revised scale. The Commissioner of the PMC shall be obliged to pass reasoned order as early as possible, in any case within three months from the date of receipt of the representation along with a copy of this order. 5. The writ application is, accordingly, disposed of. Arjun/ (V.N. Sinha, J.)