REPORTABLE
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 7578 OF 2021
Rajesh Pravinchandra Rajyaguru …Appellant
Versus
Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage Board and Ors. …Respondents
WITH
CIVIL APPEAL NO.7579 OF 2021
Radhakrishnan Ayyappan Ezhuva & Ors. …Appellants
Versus
Gujarat Water Supply & Sewerage & Ors. …Respondents
J U D G M E N T
M. R. Shah, J.
1
1. As common question of law and facts arise in these two
appeals both these appeals are decided and disposed of together.
2. Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment
and order passed by the High Court of Gujarat at Ahmedabad in
Letters Patent Appeal No.82 of 2020 by which the High Court has
allowed the said appeal preferred by Respondent no.1 herein –
Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (hereinafter referred to as
‘the Board’) and has quashed and set aside the judgment and order
passed by the learned Single Judge passed in Special Civil
Application No.16470 of 2018 by which the learned Single Judge
allowed the said writ petition preferred by the appellants herein and
held that the appellants herein – original respondents are entitled to
the pay scale of Rs.950-1500 with all consequential benefits upon
completion of 10 years of service and revised their pay scale as per
5th, 6th and 7th Pay Commission scales on such basis, the original writ
petitioners have preferre...