The said writ petition was allowed in part and thereafter he filed a Letters Patent Appeal No.
1200 1900 with effect from 1.4.1973.
4639 of 1991 before this Court against the aforesaid order of the High Court in Baijnath Guptas case and the same was dismissed by order dated 8.3.1991 on the ground that numbersufficient cause had been shown for companydonation of delay.
All the above appeals have number been filed by the State of Bihar against the orders of the High Court dated 6.9.1991, 19.9.1991 and 31.7.1991.
4639 of 1991 filed against the judgment of the High Court in Baijnath Guptas case was number decided on merits, but was dismissed on the ground of delay and as such the said decision cannot be a precedent and the State Government was entitled to challenge the orders of the High Court on merits.
In all these appeals the question arising for companysideration is whether the respondents who were Workshop Superintendents in the various Engineering Colleges or the Government Polytechnics under the State Government were entitled to U.G.C. scales of pay.
The High Court decided the said Letters Patent Appeal by order dated 19.1.1990 and held that the appellant Baijnath Gupta was a teaching employee of Government Polytechnic and the State Government had decided to implement U.G.C. pay scale to the teaching employees of Polytechnics and Engineering Colleges, and as such, the appellants case was at par with them.
The High Court also placed reliance in this regard on die earlier two decisions of that Court and held that the appellant was entitled to U.G.C. pay scale, i.e. Rs.
The State of Bihar filed a Special Leave Petition No.
Some of the Workshop Superintendents individually as well as the Bihar State Workshop Superintendents Federation filed writ petitions in the High Court claiming the U.G.C. scale and all those writ petitions have been allowed by the High Court and the order of the Government dated 8.4.1991 rejecting the representations has been quashed.
The State Government by order dated 8.4.1991 rejected the representations.
As identical questions of law are raised in all the above appeals, the same are disposed of by one companymon order.
It has been companytended on behalf of the appellant State Government that the Special Leave Petition No.
Special leave granted.
As the application for companydonation of delay had been dismissed, as such the Special Leave Petition was also dismissed.
One Baijnath Gupta who was Workshop Superintendent at one of the Government Polytechnic Institutes filed a writ petition claiming inter alia that he being a teaching employee was entitled to U.G.C. pay scale.
30 of 1987 before the Division Bench of the High Court.
Thereafter representations were filed by Bihar State Workshop Superintendents Federation before the State Government to grant U.G.C. scale with effect from 1.4.1973 and other companysequential benefits.
