The Allahabad High Court has clarified that just as state government employees get the benefit of a salary hike, similarly District Court employees are also entitled to it.
This order was given by the Wednesday bench of Justice Vikas while hearing the petitions of Vinod Kumar Saxena and Sudhir Kumar Aggarwal.
court order
The court canceled the order of the Grievance Redressal Committee of the District Court, Muzaffarnagar and, citing the decision of the Supreme Court in the case Union of India vs. P. Ayyapparumal and the government order of the State Government dated June 12, 2024, said that the case of the petitioners should be decided within two months.
Petitioners’ advocate Jagdish Singh Bundela said that Vinod Kumar Saxena was a steno in the District Court, Muzaffarnagar and Sudhir Kumar Aggarwal retired from the post of Sadar Munsarim on June 30, 2019. Both of them had applied to the District Judge demanding pensionary benefits including a salary increase for the period from July 1, 2018 to June 30, 2019. This application letter was sent to the Grievance Redressal Committee.
took recourse to court
The committee sought a report from the senior treasury officer Muzaffarnagar on this matter. The report said that there is no government order to give an additional increment to the employees who retired on June 30. On this basis, the committee had rejected the petitioners’ application on August 5, 2019. Challenging this order, both the former employees had taken refuge in the High Court.