Judgment

KULDIP SINGH, J.:- This petition under Article 32 of the Constitution has been filed by Prahalad Singh claiming that he and other similarly placed Compositors working in the Government of India Presses all over India are entitled to the status and salary of Compositors, Grade I in the ",highly skilled" category with effect from January 1, 1966. The said relief is claimed on the sole ground that one T. R. Thakur has already been given Grade I in the "highly skilled" category as a result of the judgement in his favour given by the Himachal Pradesh High Court. The Writ, Petition (C.W. 62/69) filed by T. R. Thakur was allowed by the learned single Judge of the High Court on May 21, 1971 (reported in 1971 Lab IC 1218) and Letters Patent Appeal against the said judgment was dismissed on, May 9, 1979. The High Court hold that the Categorisation as "highly skilled" and "skilled" on the basis of seniority alone was unreasonable and discriminatory. No special leave petition against the judgment of the High Court was brought to this Court and as such the judgment has become final.

2. Prahalad Singh and others have claimed that they are entitled to the benefit of the judgment given by t