( 1 ) THESE petitions, C. W. P. 462183, by Assistants, and C. W. P. 937 83, by Junior Readers, working in this Court raise a common question as to the entitlement of these categories of employees to higher scale to bring them as par, in the matter of scales of pay, with the Senior Translators and are part of a chain reaction following therecoromen dations of the Third Pay Commission.

( 2 ) THE following facts and circumstances provide the historical backdrop. The Third Pay Commission set up by the Central Government, to make recommendations inter alia, with regard to the pay and allowances of the Central Government employees submitted its report in March, 1073, setting out its recommendations with regard to various categories of the Central Government employees. The Commission made separate recommendations, in respect of the Union Territories, including Delhi. By virtue, however, of Article 229 of the Constitution of India, the staff of this Court was considered outside the scope of the recommendations and but for the provision contained in that Article, the recommendations of the Commission would have applied to them by virtue of the fact that Delhi, being a Unio