SCA/7306/2025

NEUTRAL CITATION C/SCA/7306/2025 JUDGMENT DATED: 09/06/2025 2025:GUJHC:29285 IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD R/SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 7306 of 2025 FOR APPROVAL AND SIGNATURE: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NIKHIL S. KARIEL ========================================================== Approved for Reporting Yes No √ ========================================================== AMRUTLAL RAMJIBHAI RATHOD Versus THE STATE OF GUJARAT & ORS. ========================================================== Appearance: MR KIRTIDEV R DAVE(3267) for the Petitioner(s) No. 1 MS NIRALI SARDA, AGP for the Respondent(s) No. 1,2,3 ========================================================== CORAM:HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NIKHIL S. KARIEL Date : 09/06/2025 ORAL JUDGMENT 1. Heard learned Advocate Mr. Kirtidev R. Dave for the petitioner and learned AGP Ms. Nirali Sarda for the respondent-State. 2. By way of this petition, the petitioner challenges decision dated 28.06.2023 passed by the respondent authorities, whereby the petitioner has been dis-entitled for grant of second higher pay scale, more particularly on the ground that the petitioner had been imposed with a penalty during the period in which the pe