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 CWP-31722-2019 (O&M) and CWP-32681-2019 (O&M)                           -3-

5. Learned Senior counsel further submits that after the judgment was passed in the present case, another employee namely, Sehdev Paswan also approached this Court to grant the same relief as granted to the respondents herein. The said Sehdev Paswan was junior to the respondents in the cadre of the senior Supervisor and was allowed the same benefit keeping in view the order passed by the learned Tribunal in the case of the respondents dated 17.07.2019, which is clear from the order passed by the learned Tribunal dated 02.05.2019 passed in OA No. 060-976/2017. Learned Senior counsel further submits that the said order was challenged by the Union of India before this Court and the writ petition filed in CWP-29312-2019 by the Union of India in case of Sehdev Paswan was dismissed on 14.08.2024 and the said Sehdev Paswan has already been given the benefit in August, 2024. Learned Senior counsel further submits that once, an order of the learned Tribunal which was passed based upon the order impugned herein, has already been upheld by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court, the present writ petition filed also needs to be dismissed in view of the dismissal of the writ petition No.29312 of 2019.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioner(s) submits that though, the judgment in Sehdev Paswan was based upon the order impugned in the present petition but in the said case, another factor had arisen whether, Sehdev Paswan is eligible to be granted the said benefit but concedes that the judgment in Sehdev Paswan passed by the learned Tribunal has already attained finality and he has already been granted the benefit.

7. We have heard learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the record with their assistance.

12. Further, on the basis of the judgment impugned in the present petition, one, Sehdev Paswan approached the Court and was granted the benefit of step-up of his pay equivalent to his junior and the learned Tribunal had granted the said benefit by placing reliance upon the judgment impugned in the present petition. The said order passed by the learned Tribunal in the case of Sehdev Paswan was challenged by the Union of India in CWP No.29312 of 2019, which writ petition has been dismissed by the Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 14.08.2024 and the benefit of stepping-up of pay has been granted to Sehdev Paswan in August, 2025 which is a conceded fact. One, another junior of the respondents, has been granted the benefit based upon the judgment impugned in the present petition, the argument of the petitioner(s) that the said benefit should not be extended to the respondents cannot be accepted as it will create anomaly again that the junior of the respondents has already been allowed the step-up, whereas the prayer of the petitioner is that even the senior to Sehdev Paswan should not be granted the said benefit, cannot be accepted.