CWP No.2703 of 1992 :1: In the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. Date of decision:20.02.2009. Parshotam Lal and others ... Petitioners Versus State of Punjab and another ... Respondents. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE PERMOD KOHLI Present: Mr.Dheeraj Jain, Advocate, for the petitioners. Mr.Yatinder Sharma, DAG, Punjab. PERMOD KOHLI, J. (Oral): The petitioners have filed this petition seeking benefit of Special Pay of Rs.100/- per moth with effect from 01.01.1986, on the ground that the Third Pay Commission recommended the Special Pay of Rs.100/- with effect from 01.01.1986. The petitioners have accordingly challenged the notification dated 17.02.1989, Annexure P-1. No reply has been filed. Specific averment has been made in the writ petition that Third Pay Commission's Recommendations were accepted and the benefit was conferred upon the employees with effect from 01.01.1986 which has not been denied by the respondents. The State cannot apply part of the recommendations on a date and the other on the a different date particularly when the recommendations have been accepted. In view of the above, this petition accordingly succeeds and disposed of with a direction to the respondents that the petitioners CWP No.2703 of 1992 :2: shall be entitled to Special Pay of Rs.100/- per month with effect from 01.01.1986. The respondents will work out the arrears of Special Pay and pay the same to the petitioners within a period of three months from the date a certified copy of this order is supplied to the competent authority. No costs. 20.02.2009. (PERMOD KOHLI) BLS JUDGE