JUDGMENT

A.K. Mathur, J.-All these appeals raise common question of law, therefore they are disposed off by this common order.

2. The questions involved in all these appeals are : (i) Whether the Amins and Surveyors discharge the same duties or not; (ii) Whether the Amins are entitled to the same pay scale i.e. Scale No.9 of Surveyors and (iii) What is the effect of various decisions of the High Court of Calcutta passed from time to time in favour of the Amins treating them equivalent to that of Surveyors and allowing them pay scale No.9.

3. The controversy with regard to the issue whether the Amins and the Surveyors discharge similar duties and therefore the Amins should be treated equivalent to the Surveyors started with the first litigation initiated in the High Court of Calcutta by filing of a petition by one Md. Anwarul Haque & others being Civil Rule No. 3469(W) of 1982 and the other by Abdul Bari & others being Civil Rule No. 3470 (W) of 1982, which were disposed of by order dated June 6, 1985 by learned Single Judge, Justice Subhas Chandra Sen (as he then was). The case of the petitioners in those civil rules was that they were recruited as Amins under the Land Records and Sur