Er.Gurcharan Singh Grewal & Anr vs Punjab State Electricity Board & Ors on 9 January, 2009
6. After considering the submissions made by both sides, the
Tribunal observed that it is only because of non-payment of one
annual increment to the respondent, that the pay of her junior was
more than her and held that she was entitled to salary at par with her
junior in view of the well settled legal position in the cases of
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3 SCC 94; Punjab State Electricity Board vs. Gurmail Singh, (2008)
7 SCC 245; and Commissioner and Secretary to Government of
Haryana vs. Ram Swarup Ganda, (2011) 15 SCC 722, wherein, it
has been held that the principle of stepping up of pay has to be
applied across the board in all cases where a person who is senior,
gets lesser salary than his junior, requiring the salary of the senior to
be stepped up and brought at par with the junior.