STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH Vs. PAWAN KUMAR TEWARI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Delay in filing the special appeal is condoned.

(2.) We have heard the argument of learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel.

(3.) One would have thought that after the decision of Hon'ble Supreme Court, in Dhirendra Chamoli and Anr. v. State of U.P., (1986) 1 UPLBEC 254, the State would adhere to the principle of equal pay for equal work, but it is a sad commentary on the part of the State of U.P. that it has not been following the mandate of the Constitution and the pronouncement of the Apex Court. In Dhirendra Chamoli (supra), Hon'ble Supreme Court observed :