MANMOHAN SINGH Vs. PUNJAB STATE ELECTRICITY BOARD & ORS.
LAWS(P&H)-2011-11-170
HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA
Decided on November 09,2011

MANMOHAN SINGH Appellant
VERSUS
Punjab State Electricity Board and Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

Surya Kant, J. - (1.) THE petitioner joined the respondent -Board on work -charged basis w.e.f. 01.04.1977 followed by regularization of his services as an Assistant Lineman w.e.f. 15.09.1979. He is aggrieved by the impugned order dated 11.07.2007 (Annexure P2) vide which recovery is sought to be effected on account of the alleged wrong fixation of his pay.
(2.) THE respondents have filed their counter -reply/affidavit defending the impugned action. It is, however, no -where alleged by the respondents in their reply that the petitioner misrepresented the facts; played any fraud or deceived the authority in order to secure any undeserving monetary benefits.
(3.) THAT being the state of affairs, no recovery can be allowed to be effected from the petitioner as ruled by a Full Bench of this Court in Budh Ram & Others vs. State of Haryana & Others,, 2009 (3) PLR 511 as well as by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Registrar, Cooperative Societies Haryana and others v. Israil Khan and others, : (2010) 1 SCC 440.;


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