TEJA SINGH Vs. STATE OF PUNJAB AND OTHERS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY filing Civil Writ Petition No. 20504 of 2011, appellant Teja Singh challenged withdrawal of financial benefits given to him on account of higher responsibility increment in the nature of proficiency step up under the Assured Career Progression Scheme (In short "ACP"). Consequently, recovery was also ordered to be effected. Withdrawal of the above benefit and recovery were held to be justified by placing reliance upon the judgment passed by the Supreme Court in Chandi Prasad Uniyal and Others v. State of Uttarakhand and Others : 2012 (8) Supreme Court Cases 417.

(2.) BEFORE us, the appellant has failed to show as to how he is entitled to continue with the benefits granted. Withdrawal order appears to be justified. So far as recovery is concerned, it is nobody's case that for getting financial benefits, the appellant has played any fraud or made any misrepresentation.

(3.) BOTH the judgments in Chandi Prasad's and Budh Ram's cases (supra), were considered by the Supreme Court in State of Punjab and Others v. Krishan Kumar Bansal and Others (Special Leave to Appeal (Civil) No. 24607 of 2010, decided on 2.8.2013) and judgment of the Full Bench of this Court rendered in Budh Ram's case (supra) was approved.