# EX-INSPECTOR SANJAY KUMAR vs UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS

Court: Delhi High Court
Date: 2025-07-31
Citation: W.P.(C)-13183/2023 2025:DHC:6367-DB
Petitioner: EX-INSPECTOR SANJAY KUMAR
Respondent: UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS

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## Judgment text (excerpt)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI W.P.(C) 13183/2023 & CM APPL. 52138/2023 EX-INSPECTOR SANJAY KUMAR .....Petitioner Through: Mr. M.D. Jangra, Adv. versus UNION OF INDIA AND OTHERS .....Respondents Through: Mr. Avnish Singh, SPC. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE C. HARI SHANKAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE OM PRAKASH SHUKLA JUDGMENT (ORAL) % 31.07.2025 C. HARI SHANKAR, J. 1. This writ petition assails order dated 2 August 2023, whereby the petitioner’s pay was retrospectively refixed, as well as the recoveries made from his retiral benefits as a result thereof. 2. The petitioner, who was employed as an Inspector in the Border Security Force1, retired from service on 7 July 2023. 3. After his retirement, the respondent issued order dated 2 August 2023, downwardly revising his pay scale with effect from 1 July 2009. As a result, his pay on the date of his retirement, on 1 July 2023, immediately prior to his retirement, also stood downwardly reversed 1 “BSF” hereinafter W.P.(C) 13183/2023 4. There is no dispute that the order dated 2 August 2023 was issued without any prior notice to the petitioner. 5. Following the issuance of the aforesaid order, the last pay certificate of the petitioner da

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