Judgment

Wadhwa, J.-Leave granted.

2. The appellant is a society registered under the Societies Registra­tion Act and is engaged in the research of agriculture, animal hus­bandry, fishery, etc. having network of research institutes in different parts of the country. It is aggrieved by the judgment dated August 26, 1996 of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad (‘Tribunal’ for short) allowing the petition of the respondent, a scientist working with the appellant. Tribunal directed the appellant to consider the case of the respondent for promotion to the higher grade of Scientist (senior scale) from the year 1987 on the basis of five yearly assessment scheme in existence at that time and if found fit to promote him and to fix his pay in the revised scale of pay introduced as per proceedings dated March 9, 1989 notionally and to make him actual payment in that scale on the basis of above fixation from January 13, 1990 when he was actually promoted to that grade. A further direction was that the respondent be paid arrears of salary, if any, within a period of three months from the date of receipt of copy of the judgment.

3. The appellant introduced Agricultural Research Service w