Judgment

Srinivasan, J.-Leave granted.

The respondent herein applied before the Central Administrative Tribu­nal, Hyderabad for quashing an order of the Government rejecting his representation for stepping up his pay to be on par with the pay of his juniors N.S. Shah and P. Panjiara who were promoted to the cadre of Telegraph Traffic Service Group ‘B’. The grievance of the respond­ent was that though he was promoted earlier and he was senior to the two persons mentioned above his pay was fixed at a lesser scale, namely, Rs. 2000-3500 whereas the pay of the said persons was fixed on a higher scale.

2. The Tribunal accepted the contention of the respondent and held that he is entitled to get his pay stepped up to be on par with that of P. Panjiara who was his junior. As regards Shah, the Tribunal held that the res­pondent had not made a representation to the Government and therefore, he could not seek stepping of his pay on par with Shah. However, the respondent is satisfied with the order of the Tribunal. The Tribunal has limited the relief of stepping up for a period of three years prior to the filing of his application before it as a contention was raised that his application was fil