CWP (T) No.7757 of 2008 02.6.2009 Present: Mr. Surinder Thakur, Advocate vice Mr. P.P.Chauhan, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. R.K. Sharma, Senior Additional Advocate General with Mr. Rajinder Dogra, Additional Advocate General for the respondents. The case of the petitioner in nutshell is that the person junior to him i.e. Asha Devi was paid daily wages of Rs.65/- per day. His further case is that he was also entitled to daily wages of Rs.65/- per day at par with Asha Devi and not Rs.51/- paid by the respondents. It is clear from the reply that Asha Devi though initially engaged as Beldar was permitted to discharge the duties of Assistant Store Clerk due to exigency of work. Since she discharged the duties of Assistant Store Clerk, she was entitled to pay wages at the rate of Rs.65/-. The petitioner was only working as Beldar. Even if the petitioner is senior to Asha Devi, he cannot get the wages of Rs.65/- since Asha Devi was working against the higher post of Assistant Store Clerk. In view of these observations, there is no merit in the present petition and the same is dismissed. No costs. (Rajiv Sharma), J. June 02, 2009. (rkv)