STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. AMARNATH PUROHIT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal against an order passed by learned Single Judge allowing a petition by a person Services appointed as President of District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum (for short "district Forum") while in the Rajasthan Higher Judicial Services (for short RHJS) claiming continuation on the post even after retirement from Rajasthan Higher Judicial Service (RHJS) on the same salary and allowances as were being drawn by him before retirement from RHJS. The respondent- petitioner complained that on his retirement his emoluments were reduced in violation of the rule which provides that the conditions of service of a member of the District Forum shall not be altered to his detriment. The learned Single Judge decided the case following another Single Bench decision of Jaipur Bench in S. B. Civil Writ Petition No. 3140/96 decided o n 4. 4. 97, S. S. Gupta vs. State of Rajasthan (1 ).

(2.) THE appellant State has filed this appeal challenging the decision of the learned Single Judge.

(3.) THE learned Single Judge has decided the case relying on a Single Bench decision of Jaipur Bench in S. S. Gupta vs. State of Rajasthan (supra ). In that case the learned Single Judge held that the President of the District Forum after retirement from the RHJS shall be entitled to full salary and allowance as a District Judge in addition to the pension earned by him on superannuation from RHJS.