Lalit Mohan Deb & Ors vs Union Of India & Ors on 8 February, 1972
".........As mentioned earlier, the selection grade post is not a post to
which promotion has to be made nor is there any efficiency bar rule
attached to it. Further it is not shown that the Governor had issued any
executive instructions as it had been done in Sant Ram Sharma v. State of
Rajasthan and Anr. (1968) 1 SCR 111 and in Lalit Mohan Deb and Ors.
v. Union of India and Ors. (1973) 3 SCC 862 enabling the High Court to
withhold increments in the extended pay scale which is in this case called
as selection grade pay scale. The pay scale to which a judicial officer is
entitled is a condition of service which can be regulated by a statute or
rules made under the proviso to Article 309 or by executive instructions
issued under Article 162 of the Constitution. It cannot come within the
range of the expression 'control' in Article 235 of the Constitution. (See
B.S. Yadav and Ors. etc. v. State of Haryana and Ors. etc. (1981) 1 SCR
1024). It is only where there is such a law, rule or executive instruction,
the High Court may act under Article 235 of the Constitution to sanction it
or to refuse to sanction it. We are of the view that in the present case the
mere nomenclature given to the extended pay scale as the selection grade
pay scale does not lead to the inference that there is an element of
selection involved in sanctioning it. In the circumstances it should be
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treated as just an extended pay scale which forms part of the pay scale of
Rs. 900-1800 as clarified in two Government orders sanctioning the
selection grade posts. ........."