NAND GOPAL GOYAL Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS appeal has been preferred against the judgment and order of the learned Single Judge passed on 25.7.2001 by which the writ petition filed by the petitioner claiming the revised salary for the period during which he was in the service of the respondent No. 2 the Life Insurance Corporation of India but resigned from the service later, has been denied and thus the writ petition stood dismissed.

(2.) . In order to appreciate the controversy it is relevant to state that the petitioner/appellant herein was serving as an Assistant in the Life Insurance Corporation of India (hereinafter referred to as the `LIC') where he continued till 6.10.99 and on that date he tendered his resignation to the Corporation which was accepted by the authorities vide order dated 22.6.2000. The LIC in the year 2000 issued a notification on 22.6.2000 revising the terms and conditions of service of Class III and Class IV employees whereby the scales of pay and other allowances of Class III employees were increased and the relevant Sub-Rule 3 of Rule 1 of the amended Rules 2000 laid down as follows:- "(3) These rules shall be applicable to those Class III and Class IV employees who were in whole time salaried service in the permanent establishment of the Corporation as on 1.8.1997."