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2025 DAILYLAW 150567 (ALL)

SMT. RAJPATI v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. ITS SECY. FOREST DEPTT. LKO. AND ANOTHER

WRIA/7370/2025 · 2025-07-10

Manish Mathur

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:39212 Court No. - 18 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 7370 of 2025 Petitioner :- Smt. Rajpati Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Its Secy. Forest Deptt. Lko. And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Prem Chandra Chauhan,Kashi Ram Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Manish Mathur,J. 1. Heard learned counsel for petitioner and learned State Counsel for the opposite parties. 2. Present writ petition has been filed by the petitioner seeking a direction to authority concerned for payment of minimum of pay-scale to petitioner in terms of settled law and in view of fact that petitioner was appointed on Daily Wage basis in July, 2007 on a Class IV post with opposite parties and is continuously working as such. 3. Since considering petitioner's grievance would entail factual aspects pertaining to service of petitioner rendered without entering into merits of the case, liberty is granted to petitioner to file fresh representation before opposite party no.2 i.e. Divisional Director of Forest, Social Forestry Division, Sitapur or any other competent authority who shall consider and decide the same within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of fresh representation along with a certified copy of this order. The said representation shall be decided in light of judgment of Hon'ble the Supreme Court in Sabha Shankar Dube v. Divisional Forest Officer reported in 2019(12) SCC 297: AIR 2019 SC 220. 4. With aforesaid direction(s), the petition is finally disposed of. Order Date :- 10.7.2025 Virendra Digitally signed by :- VIRENDRA KUMAR GUPTA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench