PATNA, India, Feb. 18 -- Patna High Court issued the following judgment on Feb. 6:
Heard Sri Ravi Shankar Singh, learned counsel for the appellants in both the appeals and Mr P.K. Verma, learned Additional Advocate General no.3 for the respondents.
2. CWJC no.8065 of 2020 and CWJC no. 7255 of 2020 from which the instant appeals arise as also a batch of other writ applications were disposed of by the learned Single Judge by a common judgment dated 16.4.2021 and as such both the appeals have been taken up and are being decided together.
3. The facts in brief are that the writ petitioners-appellants were granted 1st ACP in the year 2008 and 2nd ACP between 2010-13. They were given the benefit of 1st ACP in the pay scale of ASI and the 2nd A...