Supreme Court of India
Dr. M.K. Ravi Varma Etc. Etc. v. National Institute of Technology.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that fairness in action required that a notice was issued to them, before effecting re-fixation and recovery as well as de-designation.
Judgment, page 8
In brief
The appellants were Lecturers/Assistant Professors at the National Institute of Technology who were granted Academic Grade Pay, with financial benefits released to them around October 2009. In January 2010 those benefits were withdrawn and the excess amounts recovered on the ground that the appellants had not completed the requisite years of service for such placement, the pay fixation having been made by mistake. The appellants had earlier furnished an undertaking (Exhibit R2(c)) expressing willingness to re-fixation of pay and refund of any excess payment should a mistake be detected, and they were not required to perform any additional duties on account of the placement.…
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