Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Nov 25: High Court today refused to grant pay revision to judicial employee at par with the employees of other Government departments.
The employee Ghulam Hassam Lone working as plumber in High Court challenged the order of Registrar General whereby his claim for fixation of pay scale was rejected. The Division Bench of Justice Ali Mohammad Magrey and Justice Sanjay Dhar said that merely because the Government of Jammu and Kashmir has sanctioned the pay scale in the case of plumbers working in various Government departments other than the one available to the petitioner, working in the High Court, cannot be a ground for seeking pay revision at par with such plumbers.
Court said, the payment of salary to an employee of the High Court on a post borne on the establishment of the High Court is sanctioned and attached with the said post by the competent authority and an employee of the High Court is accordingly governed by the terms and conditions of their employment, including the grant of salary, other allowances, etc.
Court said, the petitioner-Lone has not placed on record any material which could substantiate his claim for the release of enhanced pay scale at par with the plumbers working in the various departments of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir and merely because there are different pay scales sanctioned and attached to the post of plumber in various departments of the Government of Jammu and Kashmir is not sufficient to grant the relief in favour of the petitioner qua the relief claimed.
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