RAJ KUMAR Vs. STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) PETITIONER joined as a Constable in the Police Department, State of Haryana on 11.1.1989. He is matriculate and also possesses the qualification of ITI (Diploma in Draftsman). Vide order dated 8.2.1994 (Annexure P -2) it was decided to appoint two Draftsman in the Department of Police. Necessary qualification for the post was laid down as under:

(2.) AS the petitioner has necessary qualification he was posted against the post of Draftsman on 6.7.1994. He continued to work as such till he was relieved from duty on 27.12.2006. It is an admitted fact that the petitioner continued to perform the duties of a Draftsman, with some intervals in between, for the period as stated above. He has filed this writ petition with a prayer that he be paid revised pay scale for the post of Draftsman i.e. Rs. 4000 -6000, for the period, he continued to perform duties of a Draftsman.

(3.) THE case of the petitioner for his re -designation as Draftsman was not considered on the ground that the pay scale of a Constable and that of a Draftsman was the same as on 26.7.1999. In the meantime the State of Haryana issued instructions revising the pay scales of those employees, who were holding technical posts. Except in the police department, those pay scales were made applicable with regard to the employees working in other Departments of State of Haryana. The matter came to this Court in CWP No. 15535/1999 and a Division Bench of this Court dealing with the similar controversy observed as under on 12.9.2002: