IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CWJC No.3391 of 2009 Subhash Chandra Singh . Versus The State Of Bihar & Ors . ----------- 4. 18.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. No counter affidavit has been filed on behalf of the Accountant General despite service of copy of the writ petition and none appears on its behalf. The petitioner is stated to have superannuated from the post of I.G. (Home Guards & Fire Services) on 31.8.2008. The issue relates to the grant of Senior Selection Grade to him from 1.9.1993. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in view of his superannuation the respondent State has decided to give him pay protection after concurrence of the Finance Department considering that his junior one Shri Bimlesh Prasad Sinha was drawing a higher salary before his superannuation then the petitioner. He submits that the office of the Accountant General has wrongly treated it to be a case of pay anomaly by orders dated 14.1.2008 and 23.7.2008. He submits that the order for pay protection has been passed only after the 2 respondents were satisfied of the eligibility of the petitioner for grant of senior selection grade from 1.9.1993 as otherwise there was no occasion for them to grant pay protection. Counsel for the State rightly submits that the State stands by its order dated 17.6.2008. Considering the submissions made on behalf of the parties and that the matter appears to be pertaining more appropriately to pay protection rather than removal of pay anomaly when both the petitioner and the said Shri Bimlesh Prasad Sinha, junior to him are stated to have superannuated, the writ application is disposed in terms of the order of the State Government dated 17.6.2008 to be complied with within a maximum period of three months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. The writ application stands allowed. P. Kumar ( Navin Sinha, J.)