ORDER

This writ petition under Article 32 is one of the series of cases we have come across to reopen the judgments/orders of this Court rendered under Article 136 of the Constitution of India after their becoming final.

2. The admitted facts are that the petitioners who joined service under the Special Security Bureau (SSB) in North Eastern Region of India, claimed special duty allowances as per order of the Central Government. The question was considered by this Court in Union of India v. S. Vijay Kumar (CA No. 3251 of 93) decided on September 20, 1994; therein this Court had held thus :

"We have duly considered the rival submissions and are inclined to agree with the contention advanced by the learned Additional Solicitor General, Shri Tulsi for two reasons. The first is that a close perusal of the two aforesaid memoranda, along with what was stated in the memorandum dated 29.10.1986 which has been quoted in the memorandum of 20.4.1987, clearly shows that allowance in question was meant to attract persons outside the North Eastern Region to work in that Region because of inaccessibility and difficult terrain. We have said so because even the 1983 memorandum starts by saying that t