M.G.B. OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION Vs. SUDHIR THAKORE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HAVING heard the learned counsel for the parties and having perused the material placed on record, we are clearly of the view that no case for proceeding against the non -petitioner in the contempt jurisdiction for willful and deliberate disobedience of the order passed by the Court is made out.

(2.) THE background aspects of the matter are as follows: The petitioner is an association of the persons working as Branch Managers in Marwar Gramin Bank. The petitioner -association preferred a writ petition (CWP No.1394/1980) on the grievance of its members against the order dated 29.04.1980 whereby, they were allegedly put in a lower position, were equated with the other cadre, and their pay structure was changed. By the order dated 01.10.1997, the said writ petition was allowed by a learned Single Judge of this Court in the following terms: -

(3.) THERE is not much of the contest on the point that the benefits that were to be given to the members of the petitioner -association w.e.f. 19.10.1982 as regards the pay scale, as also the revision of pay scale, have been granted by the employer -bank. The dispute now remains essentially as regards the observations made by the Division Bench in the above referred order for "protection of pay which was already drawn" by the managers.