Senior Entitled to Stepping Up of Pay If Junior in Same Cadre and Pay Scale Receives Higher Salary: Calcutta High Court

The Calcutta High Court, in an important service law judgment, held that a senior government employee is entitled to stepping up of pay at par with a junior if both are in the same cadre, same post and same pay scale, and the junior is drawing higher pay. The Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Sujoy Paul and Justice Partha Sarathi Sen passed the ruling in the case of P.K. Chattopadhyay.…