State Of Haryaka And Anr vs Haryana Civil Secretariat Personal ... on 10 July, 2002
There is no dispute nor can there be any to
the principle as settled in State of Haryana v. Haryana Civil
Secretariat Personal Staff Assn. [(2002) 6 SCC 72: 2002 SCC
(L&S) 822] that fixation of pay and determination of parity in
duties is the function of the executive and the scope of judicial
review of administrative decision in this regard is very limited.
However, it is also equally well settled that the courts should
interfere with administrative decisions pertaining to pay
fixation and pay parity when they find such a decision to be
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unreasonable, unjust and prejudicial to a section of employees
and taken in ignorance of material and relevant factors."