( 1 ) IS writ petition is directed against an order dated 7-4-1999 passed by the Central administrative Tribunal, Hyderabad in o. A. No. 664 of 1998 whereby and whereunder the writ petition filed by the unofficial respondent No. 2 herein was disposed of directing:"13. (1) Hence the orders, the legality of which is challenged in this O. A. are quashed and set aside. (2) The applicant is directed to be reinstated without any backwages and without any continuity of service. (3) In other words, the intervening period between the date of the applicant s removal from service till his reinstatement shall be treated as dies non. (4) The applicant shall be reinstated on the same post on which he was working prior to the removal. If the same is not available, he may be posted on any equivalent post or even on any inferior post. The preference, however, shall be for the same post, failing which the second preference shall be for equivalent post. (5) the above directions shall be carried out within 30 (thirty) days from the date of this order. (6) Both the respondents are jointly and severally liable for timely compliance with the above order. "

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