WRIT - A No. 4983 of 2007 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW WRIT - A No. - 4983 of 2007 Ranveer Singh .....Petitioner(s) Versus State Of U.P.Thr.Prin Secy Irrigation And 3 Ors .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : R.C.Tiwari Counsel for Respondent(s) : C.S.C. Court No. - 4 HON'BLE IRSHAD ALI, J. 1. Heard Shri R.C. Tiwari, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Standing Counsel for the respondents-State. 2. By means of the present writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for issuance of a writ in the nature of Certiorari, quashing the order dated 16.07.2007 as contained in Annexure-1 to this writ petition, with further prayer to issue a writ in the nature of Mandamus, commanding the opposite parties to continue to pay one additional annual increment to the petitioners which was being paid to them and also not to recover any amount already paid to the petitioners in pursuance to the order dated 16.07.2007. 3. Factual matrix of the case is that all the petitioners were appointed in Irrigation Department as part-time tube-well operators and they all are working and discharging their duties on the post of tube-well Assistant now in the Irrigation Department. The petitioners were b