WRIT - A No. 12170 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:147044 Court No. - 4 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 12170 of 2025 Petitioner :- Santosh Kumar Respondent :- The State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Anura Singh,Atipriya Gautam,Shubham Tripathi,Sr. Advocate Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajit Kumar,J. 1. Heard Sri Vijay Gautam, learned Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Ambuj Maurya, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel appearing for the State respondents. 2. By means of this petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution, petitioner, who has retired from the respondent establishment on 30th June 2017 is seeking benefit of annual increment which became due on 1st July the following date of retirement on the ground that petitioner having rendered complete one year service, were entitled to annual increment in the light of the judgment of Supreme Court in the case of Director (Administration and HR) KPTCL and others v. C.P. Mundinamani and others passed in Civil Appeal No.- 2471 of 2023 decided on 11th April, 2023 and subsequent judgment of this Court following the principles of law laid down by the Supreme Court. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has