JUDGMENT

ORDER— The short point involved in this Special Leave Petition directed against the judgment and order of the Karnataka High Court dated April 11, 1985 is whether the learned single Judge was right in issuing a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the petitioners to extend the benefit of the revision of pay-scales from January 1, 1967 to January 1, 1973 upon the view that denial to the respondent R. G. Kashikar, who was an Instructor Grade II in the National Fitness Corps, of the benefit of revision of pay-scales as accorded to all other Central Government employees, was tantamount to denial of equality before law or equal protection of law and was thus violative of Art. 14 of the Constitution.

2. Facts giving rise to the Special Leave Petition are these. In 1954, the Government of India in the Ministry of Education introduced the National Discipline Scheme which, in the year 1965, came to be redesignated as the National Fitness Corps. The respondent was appointed as an Instructor Grade II under the National Discipline Scheme in the year 1963. While the respondent was continuing as an employee of the Central Government. a proposal was made for the transfer of Instructor