Thereafter the appellants filed SLP No.
Feeling aggrieved by the said order the appellants filed OA No.1096/96 which was disposed of by the judgment dated 4th of October, 1996 of the Madras Bench of the CAT in the manner numbered earlier.
322 of 1988 and 488 of 1987 the appellants were applicants in OA 322 of 1988 accepting their claim for the higher scale of pay had been dismissed in limine by this Court.
The further submission of the learned Addl.
P. MOHAPATRA, J. LITTTTTTJ Leave granted.
The appellants who were appointed as Traffic Apprentices in Southern Railway prior to May 15, 1987, have filed this appeal challenging the judgment of the Madras Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal for short the CAT dated October 4, 1996 in OA No.
1096 of 1996 dismissing the case with the observation that it would be appropriate for the applicants to approach the Supreme Court for any clarification review of the judgment in the case titled Union of India and others vs. M. Bhaskar and others 1996 4 SCC 416.
In the said SLP a bench of three learned Judges of this Court by the Order passed on 6 11 1997 directed that the matter be placed before a companystitution bench, since the judgment in M. Bhaskars case supra was delivered by companyequal bench.
5373 of 1997 giving rise to this appeal.
