Judgment

Mrs. Sujata V. Manohar, J.-Civil Appeal No. 3751 of 1996 has been filed by the G.B. Pant University of Agricultural and Technology, Pant Nagar, in the State of U.P. against the judgment and order of the Allahabad High Court under which Research Assistants working in the appellant-University have been declared as entitled to payment of salary in the pay-scale of Rs. 700-1600 and the subsequently revised pay-scale of Rs. 2200-4000 from the date from which the said pay-scales have been given to the Research Assistants of two other agri­cultural universities in the State, namely, Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Techno­logy, Faizabad and Chandrashekhar Azad Uni­versity of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur. Civil Appeal No. 6724 of 1996 is an appeal filed by the State of U.P. against the same judgment and order of the Allahabad High Court while Civil Appeal No. 3752 of 1996 is filed by the Association of Teachers in the G.B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology against the same judgment and order of the Allahabad High Court.

2. In the appellant-university there are two cadres in the research wing. There is a cadre of Research Assistants and there is cadre of