Judgement

RAMASWAMY, J.:- Leave granted in all the special leave petitions.

2. The respondents were admittedly appointed in Railway Employees Consumer Co-operative Stores at Rajahmundry, Visashakapatnam, Vijianagaram and Dharmavaram in Sourth-Central Railway. They filed different O.As. before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Hyderabad Bench seeking declaration that they are "regular Railway employees in Class III posts" and entitled to be paid regular salary for continuous service from the date of the respective appointments in the Societies and also consequential promotion, increments and payment of arrears of salary. The CAT, Hyderabad Bench following the decision of the Madras Bench delivered on June 29, 1990 in O.A. No.305/88 allowed O.As. and gave the directions for grant of the reliefs referred to earlier but payment of salary was directed to be made from the date on which respective applications were filed. By the time the present Special Leave Petitions came to be filed, a two Judge Bench of this Court by order dated September 7, 1994 made in C.A. No.2932/91 confirmed the order of the CAT, Madras Bench but the review petition was pending. When these appeals had come