JUDGMENT

D.P. Wadhwa, J.-The appellant bank is aggrieved by the judgment dated May 24, 1991 of the Division Bench of the Guwahati High Court allowing the writ petition of the respondents and holding that the benefits which are being enjoyed by the transferred officers of the bank to North-Eastern region could also be available to respondents who are direct recruits and posted to the North-Eastern region for the first time either on probation or otherwise.

2. The appellant is a Public Sector Bank. A communication dated September 1, 1983 was addressed by the Central Government in the Ministry of Finance Department of Economic Affairs (Banking Division) to all the Chief Executives of Public Sector Banks on the subject of ad hoc and temporary incentives to the employees of the Banks posed in North-Eastern region. The reasons which led the Central Government to issue such a communication are stated in the first para of the letter which we reproduce as under :

"Sir,

I am directed to say that the question of providing special ad hoc, temporary incentives to officers of Public Sector Bank, with a view to facilitate their movement to branches/offices located in States and Union Territories in N