KIRAN DEVI Vs. CHAIRMAN HIMACHAL PRADESH PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS REGULATORY COMMISSION, SHIMLA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This order shall dispose of the above captioned writ petitions as the grievance expressed by the petitioners in all these cases is common in nature. Facts are being extracted from the lead case i.e. CWP No. 15 of 2019.

(2.) Petitioner in this case was working as Library Assistant in the Central Library of Arni University since 9/6/2009. Her grievance in the instant writ petition is that she has not been paid salary and other allowances for the period 1/11/2015 to May, 2016. It is averred that despite repeated representations sent to the Registrar of the respondent-university no heed is paid to the petitioner's request. On this premise petitioner has further averred that denial of salary tantamounts to taking away right under Article 21 of the Constitution of India.

(3.) The petitioner relies upon a series of celebrated decisions including (i) Fisheries Department, State of Uttar Pradesh vs. Charan Singh , (2015) 8 SCC 150 ; (ii) Centre for Environment and Food Security vs. Union of India and others, (2011) 5 SCC 676 and in special the following observations made in Peerless General Finance and Investment Co. Ltd. and another vs. Reserve Bank of India, (1992) 2 SCC 343 :