IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Civil Writ Petition No.5699 of 1991 DATE OF DECISION: July 11, 2011 Balbir Singh .....Petitioner VERSUS Regional Engineer College, Kurukshetra & another ....Respondents CORAM:- HON'BLE MR.JUSTICE RANJIT SINGH PRESENT: Mr. Ravinder Malik, Advocate, for Mr. S.P. Laler, Advocate, for the petitioner. Mr. Varun Gupta, Advocate, for respondent No.1. **** RANJIT SINGH, J. The petitioner, who was directly appointed as Assistant on 12.9.1978, has filed this writ petition to ask for step up his pay as his junior respondent No.2 was drawing more pay than him. The petitioner was appointed as Assistant in the respondent-college on 21.1.1978. Respondent No.2 had joined as Clerk on 14.7.1967 and was promoted as Assistant on 12.9.1978. The petitioner's pay scale on being appointed as Assistant was in the scale of ` 525-1050/-. Pay of respondent No.2 upon promotion was fixed in the same pay scale, but he was given ` 570/- as his scale. This obviously was because of a reason that respondent No.2 was appointed as a Clerk and this pay was given to him as per the fitment table. Subsequently, respondent No.2 has retired, whereas the Civil Writ Petition No.5699 of 1991 --2- petitioner has been promoted as Deputy Superintendent. In view of the fact that the petitioner and respondent No.2 came from different sources, there is no justification for the petitioner to seek equation with respondent No.2. I do not find any justification to interfere in the exercise of writ jurisdiction for the relief claimed. Dismissed. July 11, 2011 (RANJIT SINGH) monika JUDGE