The Delhi High Court dismissed a writ petition by Private Secretaries of the Income Tax Department seeking parity with the Central Secretariat Stenographers’ Service. It held their pay parity claim was not a matter of simply mechanical application.
The Allahabad High Court expressed shock over illegal deductions from retiral dues of a U.P. State Employees Welfare Corporation employee, ordering full payment with arrears within a month and warning contempt action against the Executive Director for non-compliance.
The Chhattisgarh High Court held that courts cannot direct the State to create new posts or modify service rules to provide promotional avenues as it falls under government policy. The plea of long-serving Laboratory Technicians was dismissed as legally unsustainable.
