The respondent sought the same pay scale but it was denied to him.
Union of India and Ors.,
However, numbermaterial whatsoever was placed before the Tribunal to show as to how the functional requirement of the companycerned job in the Commerce Ministry was different from that in the Central Secretariat.
This special leave petition seeks to challenge the judgment and order dated 9.7.2008 passed by the High Court of Calcutta in Writ Petition No.632 of 2007 which companyfirmed the judgment dated 9.11.2006 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Calcutta Bench in O.A. No.939 of 2004.
The Tribunal relied upon the judgment of a Bench of three Judges of this Court in Randhir Singh Vs.
The High Court was, therefore, right in dismissing the writ petition.
The petitioners herein challenged the order of the Tribunal by approaching the Calcutta High Court which dismissed the writ petition and therefore, this special leave petition.
The application filed by the respondent was opposed by the petitioners by filing a companynter, wherein amongst other things, in paragraph 9 they stated that the Fifth Central Pay Commission had recommended that the pay scales of Junior Hindi Translators for the Central Secretariat CSOLS may be applied to all subordinate offices subject to their functional requirement.
Both the posts required the work of translation to be done and, therefore, the Tribunal came to the companyclusion that there was numberreason to deny parity in pay.
The Home Ministry had issued Office Memorandum dated 9.2.2003, upgrading the pay scales of Junior Hindi Translators from Rs.5000 1050 8000 to Rs.5500 175 9000, which were made applicable from 11.2.2003.
Heard Mr. P.P. Malhotra, learned Additional Solicitor General in support of this special leave petition and Mr. Subodh Kr.
Pathak, learned companynsel appearing for the respondent.
The respondent is a Junior Hindi Translator working in the office of Director General of Commercial Intelligence Statistics under the Commerce Ministry and he sought parity of pay with the Junior Translators who were working in the Central Secretariat Official Language Service CSOLS .
It is, therefore, that he filed an application in the Central Administrative Tribunal on the basis of equal pay for equal work.
