CWP No.21721 of 2011 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. DATE OF ORDER: 23.11.2011 Balwant Singh and others ...Petitioners VERSUS State of Haryana and others …Respondents CORAM HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA PRESENT: Mr.Umesh Narang, Advocate for the petitioners Permod Kohli, J. (Oral) Notice of motion. Mr.RKS Brar, Addl.A.G., Haryana who is present in Court has been asked to accept notice on behalf of respondents. Keeping in view the prayer made and with the consent of learned counsel for the parties, this petition is being disposed of at motion stage itself without insisting for reply. The petitioners have challenged the vires of Rule 10 of the Haryana Civil Services (Revised Pay) Rules, 2008 (for short “the Rules”), which, inter alia, provides for uniform date i.e. 1st July of the year for grant of increment in the revised pay scale. The petitioners have also placed on record a copy of the judgment dated 20.7.2011 passed by a Division Bench of this Court in CWP No.16975 of 2010 (Annexure P-4), wherein the vires CWP No.21721 of 2011 2 of the above said rules have been examined and following directions have been issued:- “For the reasons aforementioned these petitions succeed. The date of increment of 1st July is declared as ultra vires of Article 14 of the Constitution in respect of those employees who earn their increment between 1st of January to 30th of June. It is directed that the petitioners and all other such employees shall be given increment on the date when they originally earn increment. The respondents shall undertake the exercise of restoring these increments to the petitioners from the date they originally earn their increments. The needful shall be done within a period of two months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.” The controversy in the present case is squarely covered by the aforesaid judgment dated 20.7.2011 (Annexure P-4). This petition is accordingly disposed of in terms of judgment dated 20.7.2011 passed in CWP No.16975 of 2011. (PERMOD KOHLI) JUDGE (TEJINDER SINGH DHINDSA) JUDGE 23.11.2011 MFK CWP No.10585 of 2010 3