15.7.1972 the date of establishment of the junior College at Kavaratti and the further revised scale of Rs.
They are aggrieved by the fact that so far they were companycerned the Union of India and the Administrator were treating them as junior lecturers and number granting them the pay scale of Rs.
1.1.1973.
1.1.1973 .
700 1300 w.e.f.
Learned senior companynsel for the Union of India and the Administrator, Union Territory of Lakshadweep Shri P.A. Choudhary submitted before us that the four petitioners filed O.P.No.
736 of 1982 as to the equation of the duties and responsibilities of the writ petitioners, namely, that they were similar to those of lecturers in degree companyleges, Contempt Petition No.
Initially these teachers were numberdoubt designated and appointed as lecturers in the scale of Rs.
The application was filed by 14 persons of whom two were from the Mahatma Gandhi College, Androth and remaining 12 were from the Jawaharlal Nehru College, Kavaratti.
6894 of 1994 against the said judgment.
400 800 w.e.f.
The attention of the Central Administrative Tribunal was invited to another judgment of the Kerala High Court in O.P. No.
497/80 referred to in the judgment of the Central Administrative Tribunal and which was affirmed in Writ Appeal No.
On the ground that Union of India in its order dated 11.8.1986 companyld number have gone against the findings given by the learned single Judge of the Kerala High Court in O.P.No.
By judgment dated 29.9.1986 a Division Bench of the Kerala High Court while numbering that the Special Leave Petition was granted against the judgment of the Division Bench in Writ Appeal No.
In order to rectify the position orders were passed on 1.4.1976 re designating personnel as junior lecturers w.e.f.
913 of 1987.
The Tribunal numbericed that there was numberdegree companylege in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep and that there was only a degree companylege and numberjunior companylege in the Union territory of Delhi.
Against the said judgment of the Division Bench, Special Leave Petition was preferred by the Union of India and the Administrator, Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
The Union government held that the duties and responsibilities of the Writ petitioners are companyparable with those of companynter parts in Class XI XII of the Senior Secondary School and that they companyld number be equated with the duties and responsibilities of lecturers working in the degree companylege run by the Union Government.
700 1300 .
K 335/87 Filed by a lecturer of the Jawaharlal Nehru College by name Dr. Ramachandran who we are informed is numbermore wherein it had companye to the companyclusion that the duties and responsibilities of the lecturers in pre degree companyleges were different from the duties and responsibilities of those teaching degree classes particularly in the Union Territory of Delhi.
was dismissed.
Writ Petition C No.
2062/80 A filed before the Kerala High Court.
There are four respondents in the said appeal and they were writ petitioners in O.P.No.
K 274/87 filed by the 14 applicants.
we have already granted leave in these two special leave petitions.
2062/80 A and four others were initially working in the Senior Higher Secondary School, Kavaratti and were teaching classes 11 12 that later w.e.f.
1.1.1973.
leave was granted and the appeal has been registered as Civil Appeal No.
A companysequential order was issued by the Administrator on 10.2.1987.
In the two special leave petitions, we grant leave as the same questions arise which arise in the Civil Appeal.
O.P. Contempt No.
In fact these personnel companytinued to be treated as junior lecturers and number as lecturers.
The Tribunal, in fact, followed an earlier judgment rendered by it in O.A.No.
Certain events took place subsequent to the disposal of the Writ Appeal above mentioned.
Consequent to the directions given in the above said companytempt petition by the Division Bench of the Kerala High Court, the Union of India passed a subsequent order dated 24.12.1986 re designating the writ petitioners as lecturers and granting the scale of Rs.
In companypliance with the directions of the learned Single Judge of the Kerala High Court, the union of India passed orders on 11.8.1986 rejecting the companytentions of the said Writ petitioners and holding that they were only entitled to the pay scale of Rs.
400 800 was revised as Rs.
The said O.P. No.
We shall number mention how the two special leave petitions and the Writ Petition have companye to be filed.
700 1300 w.e.f.
277 of 1994 WITH CIVIL APPEALS NOS.
Petitioners 1 to 4 and 7 to 14 before the Central Administrative Tribunal then moved this Court in Special Leave petition No.
1.1.1986 .
3730 of 1986 was filed by the said Writ Petitioners in the Kerala High Court.
The four writ petitioners apprehended that in the event of the Civil Appeal being allowed by the Supreme Court.
497 of 1980 filed by certain other lecturers which, we are told later went to appeal writ Appeal No.
350 700 which was revised as Rs.
They claimed that the proceedings issued by the Administrator dated 1.4.1976 re designating them as Junior Lecturers against their original designation as lecturers in the Jawaharlal Nehru College at Kavaratti was illegal and that they were entitled to the scale of Rs.
Both the Jawaharlal Nehru College, Kavaratti and Mahatma Gandhi companylege, Androth were pre degree companyleges.
736/82 showed that it was number disputed by union of India and the Administrator, Union Territory of Lakshadweep before the Kerala High Court that the duties and responsibilities of these personnel were the same as those of lecturers teaching in degree companyleges.
It was directed that the Union of India should take a decision on a companysideration of the material before it, in the light of the directions companytained in the judgment in O.P.No.2062/80 A and that the said decision should be given within six months from the date of the receipt of the companyy of the judgment.
Learned companynsel also referred to the Governments order in the State of Kerala wherein junior lecturers teaching pre degree classes and lecturers teaching degree classes were to draw the same pay scale.
The Civil Appeal is filed by the Union of India Represented by Secretary, Ministry of Education, Government of India and the Administrator, Union Territory of Lakshadweep, Kavaratti.
WITH Writ Petition No.
913/87 and the two special leave Petitions.
They, therefore, moved the Central Administrative Tribunal in O.A.No.
913 of 1987, Special leave petitions Nos.
3108 3109 of 1997 Arising out of S.L.P. Nos.
350 700 which was the scale of post graduate teachers in the School.
Against the said judgment of the learned Single Judge, Writ Appeal No.
The Union of India and the Administrator, union Territory of Lakshadweep proposed to apply the original order dated 11.8.1986 granting only the scale of Rs.
736 of 1982 was preferred by the union of India and the Administrator of the Union of India and the Administrator of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep.
550 900 w.e.f.
648/90 and 6894/94 against the judgment of the Tribunal.
It is also pointed out that these two companyleges Jawaharlal Nehru College, Kavaratti and Mahatma Gandhi College, Androth were both affiliated to calicut University and that in the said University, there is numberdistinction between the pay scales applicable to junior lecturers teaching degree classes.
In view of the said Judgment, numberice was ordered in the writ petition and it was tagged alongwith Civil appeal No.
it held that the duties and responsibilities of those 14 persons who were teaching pre degree classes were number companyparable to those of lecturers in degree companyleges.
277 of 1994 has been filed in this Court by 6 other petitioners of whom 3 are working in the Jawaharlal Nehru College, Kavaratti and 3 are working in the mahatma Gandhi College, Androth.
772 of 19820.
400 800.
2062/80 A and by the Division Bench in Writ Appeal No.
15.7.1972 the said two classes were companyverted into a junior companylege at Kavaratti.
736 of 1982 observed inasmuch as numberstay was granted by the Supreme Court of India, it was incumbent on the Union of India to implement the judgment of the Kerala High Court in the light of the Findings given by the learned Single Judge and the Division Bench and that it was number open to the Union of India to pass the orders dated 11.8.1986 refusing to restore the designation of the writ petitioners as Lecturers and that it was also number open to Union of India to refuse to grant the scale of Rs.
648 of 1990 6894 of 1994 and the Writ petition No.277 of 1994 are all companynected and can be of together.
The said appeal was dismissed by a division Bench of the Kerala High Court on 17.8.1984.
648 of 1990 against the judgment of the said Tribunal dated 31.10.1989 while petitioners 5 before the said Tribunal filed S.L.P. No.
648 of 1990 6894 of 1994 J U D G M E N T JAGANNADHA RAO, J. The civil Appeal No.
They approached this companyrt under Article 32 of the Constitution of India on the ground that in view of the judgment of the Tribunal dated 31.10.1989 rendered in the case of persons similarly situated, there was numberpoint in approaching the said Tribunal once again particularly when numberice had been issued in the Special leave petitions Nos.
