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Court Quashes 'Excess Salary' Recovery Orders for UP Police Employees
17 Aug
Summary
- Allahabad High Court quashes recovery orders for 'excess salary' from UP police staff
- Court directs state to refund any such deductions within 8 weeks
- Ruling cites lack of hearing for employees and no fraud allegations
On August 8, 2025, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court delivered a significant ruling in favor of Uttar Pradesh police employees. The court quashed recovery orders that had been issued to Class III and Class IV staff for alleged 'excess salary' payments.
The court's decision came in response to a batch of 53 petitions filed by the affected employees, led by Madan Ji Shukla and others. The petitioners had challenged the deductions and adjustments made against them, citing anomalies in their pay-scale fixation.
In its ruling, the high court noted that the impugned recovery orders were passed solely based on audit reports, without providing the employees an opportunity to be heard. Crucially, the court also found no allegations of fraud or misrepresentation by the petitioners in securing the disputed pay-scales.
Citing a Supreme Court precedent that bars recovery of excess payments from lower-level government staff, the Allahabad bench directed the Uttar Pradesh home department to refund any such deducted amounts within eight weeks of the order being submitted.
