IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH. CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 19275 OF 2007 DATE OF DECISION: May 19, 2008 Parties Name Sheotaj Singh ..PETITIONER VERSUS The State of Haryana and others ...RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE JASBIR SINGH HON'BLE MR JUSTICE K. C. PURI PRESENT: Mr. Ravi Verma, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Harish Rathee, Sr. D.A.G., Haryana; JASBIR SINGH, J. (oral) Order. This order will dispose of two writ petitions , i.e. , C.W.P. No. 19275 of 2007 and CWP No. 5578 of 2008 as common questions of law and facts are involved in both these cases. For facility of dictating order, facts are being taken from CWP No. 19275 of 2007. By filing this writ petition, petitioner has laid challenge to the instructions dated August 22, 2003 ( P-2) and order dated December 7, 2007 (P-5), vide which benefit of additional increments, earlier granted to the petitioner (by way of bunching of three increments) was withdrawn. Counsel for the petitioner states that similar controversy came up before this Court in C.W.P. No. 18601 of 2006 (Om Parkash and others v. State of Haryana and others), decided on April 10, 2008, vide which action of the CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 19275 OF 2007 -2- respondents in withdrawing additional increments, earlier granted, was set aside. Shri Rathee has raised objection that after filing of this writ petition, order Annexure R-1 was passed on March 26, 2008. Vide that order also, benefit of additional increments, earlier granted to the petitioner has been withdrawn. In sum and substance, order Annexure R-1 is similar to the order Annexure P-5, which is under challenge. Faced with the situation, Shri Rathee has failed to show us anything to the contrary to controvert the ratio of the judgment in Om Parkash's case (supra). In view of facts, mentioned above, these writ petitions are allowed in the same terms as in Om Parkash's case (supra). ( Jasbir Singh ) Judge ( K. C. Puri ) May 19, 2008. Judge DKC