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8. A look of the facts would be apt to understand the relief prayed for to keep the two set of employees by their earlier differential in pay scales and not to obliterate the hiatus. The anomaly in pay has been exacerbated with the upgradation of pay scales under the Assured Career Progression Scheme. To wit, the petitioner No.1 completed 14 years of service under the 4/9/14 ACP Scheme on December 17, 2007 and the benefit has been given to him w.e.f. January 01, 2008. Petitioner No.3 had the same benefit w.e.f. January 01, 2008 while petitioner No.2 is entitled to the ACP scale w.e.f. January 01, 2009 in terms of proviso to Rule 5 of the 2009 pay revision rules. The second proviso to Rule 5 permitted Government employee to exercise option from January 01, 2006 or from the date of upgradation of pay scales under the ACP scheme. In the process of implementing the revised pay scale w.e.f. January 01, 2006 and the 14 years ACP Scheme benefits following due thereafter, the State Government interpretation in fitment of the pay of the petitioners has wantonly taken away accrued, vested and crystallized rights to preservation of accelerated pay and allowances earned by grant of six advance increments over and above their annual increments earned in the post. The withdrawal of the policy of higher pay for higher qualifications may have been disbanded but the arbitrary action of the respondent-State has dissolved the recurring benefit of the six additional increments and the effect of this renders CWP No.18514, 19064 and 22577 of 2012 CWP No.10661, 10749, 619 and 678 of 2013 CWP No.21461 of 2014 and possession of the Post Graduate qualification as meaningless. If this was permitted it would amount to reverse discrimination.