ORDER

Substitution allowed.

Leave granted. We have heard counsel on both sides.

2. These appeals by special leave arise from the judgment and order dated 2.11.1993 of the High Court of Punjab & Haryana made in CWP No. 13493/91 & batch. It is not necessary to narrate all the factual details. Suffice it to state that the respondents claim payment of salary in the selection grade pay-scales which the High Court has granted them. While we have taken the matter for final disposal, Shri Pankaj Kalra, learned counsel for the respondent, has brought to our notice the order issued by the Government on August 20, 1996 signed by the Joint Secretary (Finance), for Financial Commissioner & Secretary to Government, Haryana, Finance Department which reads as under:

"I am directed to invite your attention to the subject noted above and to say that prior to 1.4.79 the Selection Grade to Group C & D Category employees was admissible on the basis of the number of permanent posts in a particular cadre and later on, till 1.1.86, the date on which this practice was altogether abolished, for determining the number of the Selection Grade posts, the temporary posts in existence for the preceding three years w