CWP No. 17418 of 2009 -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No. 17418 of 2009 Date of decision : 14.07.2011 Smt. Neelam Bala ......Petitioner versus State of Punjab and others ...Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE RITU BAHRI Present: Mr. Y.M. Bhagirath, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Anu Pal, AAG, Punjab **** RITU BAHRI, J. (Oral) The petitioner is seeking quashing of impugned order dated 10.07.2008 (Annexure P-2) whereby the benefit of additional increment of higher responsibility granted to the petitioner at the time of her promotion as Hindi Mistress from C & V cadre and the pay of the petitioner has been reduced with retrospective effect and recovery has been ordered. At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioner has referred to a judgment of this Court (Annexure R-1) wherein in similar circumstances a Division Bench of this Court has disposed of the petitions by observing that the orders of withdrawing the benefit of additional increment shall operate prospectively and shall be deemed to be quashed to the extent of their retrospective operation. This petition is disposed of by giving a direction to the respondents not to make any recovery prior to 10.07.2008 i.e the date when the order of CWP No. 17418 of 2009 -2- recovery has been passed and they are further restrained from making any recovery and if any amount has been recovered prior to Annexure P-2 shall be returned back to the petitioner. July 14, 2011 (RITU BAHRI) G.Arora JUDGE