Supreme Court of India

Punjab State Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Ltd. & Anr. v. Balbir Kumar Walia & Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 6 S.C.R. 395
Bench Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 9 July 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we find that the order of the High Court is unjustified and in excess of the power of judicial review conferred on the High Court.

Judgment, page 37

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Punjab State Co-operative Milk Producers Federation Services (Common Cadre) Rules, 1980: Revised pay sc ale – Entitlement to, from 1.1.1986 – Writ petitions by t he respondents- employees seeking entitlement to pay scale equivale nt to their counterparts in the State of Punjab from 1.1.1986, though the revi sed pay scale was allowed by the Punjab State Co-operati ve Milk Producers Federation Ltd w.e.f. 1.1.1994 – Federation’ s case that they were suffering with acute financial stringency – High Court allowed the writ petitions holding that the financial stringe ncy was no longer an excuse to

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