WRIT - A No. 10045 of 2020 at Allahabad

1 AFR Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:17761 Court No. - 5 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 10045 of 2020 Petitioner :- Shivakar Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 5 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Akash Khare,Hari Om Counsel for Respondent :- Abhishek Srivastava,Baleshwar Chaturvedi,C.S.C. Hon'ble Ajay Bhanot,J. 1. Heard Shri Akash Khare, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Standing Counsel for the respondent No.1-State and Shri Abhishek Srivastava, learned counsel for the respondents No.2 and 3. 2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order dated 23.04.2020 declining to pay arrears of salary to the petitioner for the period commencing from 23.01.2015 to 18.12.2018. The impugned order records that the petitioner was imprisoned from 23.01.2015 to 18.12.2018 after a criminal case was registered against him under Section 13(1)(b) read with Section 13(1) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The F.I.R. was filed by one S.S. Chaudhary, Superintendent of Police, Anti Corruption Department against the petitioner on the complaint received from a private electricity consumer. The salary has been refused on the application of the principle of “no work no pay”. 3. Briefly put the prosecu