Gujarat Court February 1983 Judgments

Nanabhai Shankerbhai Vasava Vs. the Commandant Group-x and anr.

Court: Gujarat

Reported in: (1983)2GLR1143

A.S. Qureshi, J.1. This is the group of five petitions involving a common question of law and hence at the request of the learned Counsel for the parties they been heard together and disposed of by this common judgment. In the petition No. 5013/82 the petitioner is a Head Constable and in the rest of the petitions the petitioners are Constables. The petitioners have been trained as drivers and have been given the duty of driving motor vehicle for which an additional pay of Rs. 50/- per month as special allowance is paid for driving duty. Each of these petitioners was involved in an accident except the petitioner in petition No. 2435/82 where the petitioner was charged for illicit drinking. The petitioner have been ordered to go back to their duties as Constables and were deprived of their duties as drivers with a consequent loss of earning of Rs. 50/- per month.2. In all these petitions the orders have been challenged on various grounds including the ground that the impugned order call...