Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:41524 Court No. - 18 Case :- WRIT - A No. - 7861 of 2025 Petitioner :- Jay Baks Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Forest Deptt. U.P. 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, 1990 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 :- 21.7.2025 Satish Digitally signed by :- SATISH KUMAR BHARATI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench