All these three civil appeals on special leave under Article 136 of the Constitution of India, have been moved by the Punjab Mandi Board, being aggrieved by identical orders passed by the High Court in writ petitions filed by the respective respondents in the High Court.
It appears that at the time of admission of these special leave petitions against the impugned judgments of the High Court, a new companytention was canvassed on behalf of the appellants to the effect that the cut off date of 3 7 1980 was number artificial or without any rational basis.
The benefit of the aforesaid pay scale was companyfined to only those Clerks who were recruited by the Market Committees companycerned from 1 1 1978 and before 3 7 1980.
The appellants companytended that this difference was made in the pay scale available to old recruits only as personal pay.
510 800, only on the ground that they were recruited on and after 3 7 1980.
Consequently, the writ petitions were allowed.
