WRIT - A No. 18624 of 2024 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:17582 Court No. - 6 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 18624 of 2024 Petitioner :- Satya Prakash Singh Respondent :- State Of Up And 3 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Shiv Nath Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Neeraj Tiwari,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for State- respondents. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner informed that vide impugned order dated 7.7.2024, pay scale of petitioner was revised reducing it from Rs. 14430/- to Rs. 13500/-. Further, recovery of Rs. 10,000/- per month has also been started from his monthly salary in lieu of excess payment of Rs. 5,84,580/- made to the petitioner due to wrong fixation of pay scale. He next submitted that said order has been passed without providing opportunity of hearing to the petitioner. He next submitted that in light of judgments of Apex Court in the matter of State of Punjab and others Vs. Rafiq Masih: 2015 (4) SCC 334 & Bare Lal Upadhyay vs. State of U.P. & others decided on 14.1.2018 passed in Writ-A No.14196 of 2007, no recovery can be made from Class III and Class IV employees against the excess payment of salary due to wrong