By an order made on Ist November, 1961, the Railway Board with the sanction of the President accepted their claim and gave them the scale of pay and the seniority to which they were entitled.
The writ Petition filed by the respondents in the High Court of Delhi was accepted.
Other grounds also were raised.
The respondents questioned the order dated 12th July, 1962.
One of the ground was that paragraph 157 of the Indian Railway Establishment Code under which the Railway Board claimed to have passed the order did number authorise the making of the order in question.
Subsequently the Railway Board by an order dated 12th July, 1962 cancelled the earlier order in regard to seniority.
They clamoured for the revision of their pay scales and far recognition of their due seniority.
The Union of India has preferred this appeal.
Chinnappa Reddy, J. The question in these appeals and the Writ Petition turn on the interpretation of paragraph 157 of the Indian Railway Establishment Code Volume I. The case of the respondents in these appeals was that although Revised pay rules of 1974 were made applicable to all Number Takers employed in the Delhi Division of the North Western Railway alone were number given the benefit of the revised pay scales.
