1 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR CONT No. 337 of 2025 1 - Pranav Kumar Garg S/o Ramesh Kumar Garg Aged About 52 Years Working As Pharmacist Grade-Ii, Central Jail Bilaspur, R/o. Central Jail Bilaspur, Ps Civil Lines, District- Bilaspur C.G. 2 - Bhagat Ram Satnami S/o Gaspati Satnami Aged About 47 Years Working As Pharmacist Grade-Ii, Central Jail Bilaspur, R/o. Central Jail Bilaspur, Ps Civil Lines, District- Bilaspur C.G. 3 - Smt. Shradha Singh W/o Nishant Singh Aged About 40 Years Working As Pharmacist Grade-Ii, Central Jail Bilaspur, R/o. Central Jail Bilaspur, Ps Civil Lines, District- Bilaspur C.G. 4 - Rupendra Tiwari S/o Shesh Narayan Tiwari Aged About 37 Years Working As Pharmacist Grade-Ii, District Jail Balodabazar, R/o. District Jail Balodabazar, Ps Balodabazar, District Balodabazar-Bhatapara C.G. 5 - Badri Vishal Patel S/o Ram Kushal Patel Aged About 41 Years Working As Pharmacist Grade-Ii, District Jail, Janjgir, R/o District Jail Janjgir, Ps Janjgir, District Janjgir-Champa C.G. ... Petitioner(s) versus 1 - Manoj Kumar Pingua Ias The Additional Chief Secretary-Home (Jail) Department Through The State Of Chhattisgarh, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, District- Raipur C.G. 2 - Avinash Champawat Ias The Secretary-General Administration Department, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, District- Raipur C.G. 3 - Himshikhar Gupta Ias The Secretary-Home (Jail) Department, State Of Chhattisgarh, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, District- Raipur C.G. 4 - Himanshu Gupta Ips The Director General-Jail, Prision And Correctional Services Department, Sector-19, Nava Raipur, District- Raipur C.G. SAGRIKA AGRAWAL Digitally signed by SAGRIKA AGRAWAL Date: 2025.09.04 15:05:40 +0530 2 5 - Amit Katariya Ias The Secretary-Pubic Health And Family Welfare Department, Mantralaya, Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur, District- Raipur C.G. ... Respondent(s) For Petitioner(s) : Mr. Praveen Soni, Advocate on virtual mode For Respondent(s) : Mr. Rakesh Jha, Advocate for Res. No. 1, 2, 3 Ms. Pallavi Das, Advocate for Res. No. 4 Mr. Vivek Sharma, Advocate for Res. No. 5 Hon’ble Shri Justice Ravindra Kumar Agrawal, J Order on Board 04.09.2025 1. Pursuant to the order dated 18.08.2025, Respondent No. 2, 3 and 5 have appeared in person before this Court. 2. At the outset, learned counsel appearing for the respective respondents would submit that the benefit of the order under contempt has been granted to the petitioners and the order has been passed on 29.08.2025 granting the equal pay scale as per the Pharmacists Grade-II to the petitioners with effect from 01.04.2006 and within three months from today, the difference amount of arrears shall be paid to the petitioners to their bank accounts. They would also placed the copy of the order dated 29.08.2025, which is being taken on record. 3. At this juncture, learned counsel for the petitioners would submit that though the specific period has been mentioned for compliance of the order contempt but the order has been complied with much later and since the order has been passed on 29.08.2025 and the assurance has been given by respondent authority that the difference of amount shall be paid to the petitioners within three months from today, at this juncture, the petitioners does not want to press the present contempt 3 petition further, however, liberty may be reserved to the petitioners to revive their prayer, if occasion so arises. 4. On due consideration, the submissions made by learned counsel for the respective parties, the present contempt petition is disposed of at this stage reserving the liberty to the petitioners to revive their prayer if occasion so arises. Sd/- (Ravindra Kumar Agrawal) Judge sagrika