Judgment :-

Chandramauli Kr. Prasad, J.

All these appeals arise out of a common judgment dated 14th February, 2006 passed by the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court in LPA Nos. 189 of 2000, 289-290 of 2000 and 294 of 2000, whereby the appeals of the appellants have been dismissed and the appeal preferred by the respondent against the common judgment of the learned Single Judge dated 3rd March, 2000 in C.W. Nos.2296, 2297 and 2298 of 1995 has been allowed.

2. Short facts giving rise to the present appeals are that in the month of March, 1982 respondent Indian Railway Construction Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as the 'IRCON') a Government of India Undertaking was awarded two railway projects in Algeria. In June, 1982 the respondent inducted Ranjit Sinha appellant (since deceased) in Civil Appeal No.968 of 2007, a temporary employee of the Council of Scientific Industrial Research as French Translator in the pay scale of Rs.700-1200. On 18th February, 1984 IRCON advertised four posts of French Translator out of which two were for General Category and one each reserved for the members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. Rameshwar Dayal (appellant in Civil Appeal