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Grade, rank, position, in scale, class or position in class according to the value, Hari Nandan Sharan Bhatnagar v. S.N. Dikshit, AIR 1970 SC 40 (41): (1969) 2 SCC 245: (1970) 1 SCR 421. [United Pro-vinices Legislative Department Rules, R. 7]

An incremental step in the scale of punishment for offences, based an a particular offenses genousners, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 705.