SooperKanoon Citation | sooperkanoon.com/1044141 |
Court | Madhya Pradesh High Court |
Decided On | Sep-12-2012 |
Appellant | Smt. Mouli Saraswat |
Respondent | B.R. Naidu, Principal Secretary, |
Smt.
Mouli Saraswat versus B.R.Naidu and Anr.
Conc.
No.630 ”
12. 9.2012: Shri Subodh Kathar, learned counsel for the applicant.
Shri Manas Verma, learned counsel for nonapplicant No.1.
Shri Narayan Dubey, learned counsel for nonapplicant No.2.
This Court on 13.10.2010 in W.P. No.10550/2008(s) and W.P. No.4209/2009(s) directed the nonapplicants to ensure that proper budgetary provision is made and pension paid to the applicants. It was directed that action be taken within 60 days by the competent authority of the State Government to provide budget to the department concerned for payment of pension.
From the return filed by nonapplicant Nos.1 & 2 it is seen that budgetary sanction has been made and based on same pension and other post retiral benefit to employees have been granted. Now the grievance of applicants is that the pension claim have been settled without granting benefit of the revision of payscale and pension as per the unrevised pay scale has been granted.
Accordingly, contending that action be taken for contempt, as pension has not paid on the revised payscale, Shri Kathar prays for proceeding into the matter.
Having heard learned counsel for the parties and on perusal of record it is seen that in the order passed by this Court on 13.10.2010 in W.P. No.10550/2008(s) and W.P. 2 No.4209/2009(s) the only direction issued was that budgetary sanction be granted and claim settled in accordance to entitlement. Once the claim has been settled and nonapplicants contend that they have done so in accordance to their entitlement, in the absence of any specific directions for calculating pension in a particular pay scale and in the absence of any direction to pay pension in the revised payscale or otherwise it is not appropriate for this Court to initiate action for contempt on such consideration.
Accordingly, finding nonapplicants to have complied with the directions issued by this Court, this application is disposed of with liberty to the applicants to initiate action afresh in accordance to law if they have any grievance still subsisting.
With the aforesaid the contempt application is disposed of. (Rajendra Menon) Judge ss/-