JUDGMENT

S.P. Kurdukar, J.-These two appeals by Special Leave arise out of the judgment and order dated 10th April, 1992 passed by Central Administrative Tribunal, Bombay Bench, Bombay in O.A. No. 558 of 1989 filed by H.P. Vora, the first respondent in both the appeals. Civil Appeal No. 256 of 1993 is filed by Jacob Yahannan whereas Civil Appeal No. 1689 of 1993 is filed by the Administrator and the Collector, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Silvassa.

2. The facts set out in Civil Appeal No. 1689 of 1993 are as under :

The Collector, Dadra and Nagar Haveli on 28th March, 1989 published a priovisional gradation list of Deputy Engineers/Assistant Engineers/Assistant Surveyors of Works (Civil) as on Ist January, 1984 and invited objections, if any, to the said provisional gradation list. The first respondent filed representation against the said gradation list alleging that Assistant Engineers/Assistant Surveyors of Works (Civil) could not have been bracketed along with the Deputy Engineers since they did not belong to the cadre of Deputy Engineers. The Collector negatived the objections filed by the first respondent and on 22nd June, 1989 published a final gradation list of Deputy Engineers/Ass