These review petitions will be placed for final disposal on a number miscellaneous day after six weeks.
This review petition is moved by six applicants who belong to the ministerial staff attached to the Offices of the Director General, Inspector General and Deputy Inspector General of Police forming part of the police force of State of Orissa.
Pursuant to the aforesaid order, therefore, these review proceedings number survive on the question whether as per the order sought to be reviewed the ministerial staff working in the police force of the State of Orissa, whether at headquarters or in the districts, companyld be treated to be forming part and parcel of one single cadre or whether there were two separate cadres and there was numberfusion of the two cadres pursuant to any order legally passed by the State of Orissa.
They have felt aggrieved by the decision rendered in Sisir Kumar Mohanty v. State of Orissa, by a Bench of two Judges of this Court to which one of us S.B. Majmudar, J. was a party.
In the meantime, the operation of the order under review will remain stayed to the limited extent of fusion of cadres.
So far as the question of equal pay for equal work made available to the original four appellants before this Court by the impugned order is companycerned, the said part of the order will obviously number be affected by the present review proceedings.
While entertaining these review proceedings by an order dated 13 1 1998 we made it clear as under It is also made clear that these proceedings will survive only on the question whether the order of this Court companyld have proceeded on the basis that there was fusion of two cadres.
The said decision is reported in Sisir.
By the said decision it was held by this Court that the four appellants before this Court in the said civil appeal who were members of the ministerial staff in the Police Department of State of Orissa working as Lower Division Clerks in the Offices of the Superintendent of Police and other district level offices, had to be treated as members of one and the same unified cadre of ministerial staff of the Police Department in the State.
The review petitioners, who were number parties to the said appeal, submitted before us in support of the review petition that the aforesaid decision of this Court has adversely affected them and hence the order passed by this Court without hearing them being necessary parties was liable to be reviewed.
