STATE OF WEST BENGAL Vs. PRANAB KUMAR MOITRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE respondent was appointed as an Inspector in the Food and Supplies Department in the year 1972. He was promoted to the post of Chief Inspector in the Food and Supplies Department in the year 1985 and his pay was fixed in the scale of 425-1050 under Pay Scale 11 of the Revision of Pay & Allowances Rules 1981('ROPA Rules 1981' for short). He approached the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal in the year 1988 praying that Pay Scale 13 (Rs.470-1230) granted to Chief Inspectors in the Relief & Welfare Department should be extended to him. The said petition was disposed of on 7.9.1990 with a direction to consider his representation.

(2.) ON 12.1.1990, the Govt. of West Bengal, accepting the recommendations of the Third Pay Commission, framed the ROPA Rules 1990 with retrospective effect from 1.1.1986. The said rules prescribed the following scales for Food and Supplies Department:

(3.) ANOTHER set of 50 Inspectors, Food and Supplies (namely, Pinaki Ranjan Gupta and others) also approached the High Court in C.O.No.20188 (W) of 1994 for extending them the benefit of pay scale of Rs.425-1050 with effect from 1.4.1981 on the ground that the two Inspectors were granted such relief. The said petition (numbered as TA No.987/1996) on transfer to the West Bengal Administrative Tribunal, was allowed on 10.7.1997 directing that the petitioners therein be given the same scale of pay as has been given to Abhijit Samaddar and another in case No. 1895(W)/1990 on the same terms and conditions.