Judgment

K. Venkataswami, J.-The respondent Nos. 2 to 64 in Civil Appeal No. 5642/94 are the employees in the office of the Court Liquidator in the Calcutta High Court. Aggrieved by the disparity in pay-scales and deprivation of allowances and retiral benefits, they moved matter No. 756 of 1991 before a learned Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court. They claimed that they must be treated as employees of the Central Government and should be given full status of permanent Central Gov­ernment employees on the expiry of 360 days of joining their service besides regular pay-scales with avenues for promotion, pension, provi­dent fund and other service benefits on the basis of their length of service.

2. The learned Single Judge of the Calcutta High Court ruled that writ petitioners/respondent Nos. 2 to 64 herein should be given the full status of permanent Central Government employees on the expiry of 360 days of their joining the service. However, the learned Judge re­stricted the arrears for a period of three years prior to the date of the said judgment. The learned Judge safeguarded the right with refer­ence to their fitment in the appropriate scale and the benefit of promotion having