( 1 ) THIS writ petition was disposed off by a consent order on 12th January, 2007. Thereafter, the petitioners filed CM No. 4904/2007 for recall of, inter alia, the order dated 12. 1. 2007 whereby the petition was disposed of and for a decision of the petition on its merits. Another application was also moved by the petitioners being CM No. 10009/07 for certain directions, which will be adverted to later in this judgment. We have heard arguments on the aforesaid two applications and thereafter proceeded to hear the arguments of the parties in the Writ Petition itself, since we were inclined to allow petitioner's application being CM No. 4904/2007 and recall the orders dated 4. 1. 2007 and 12. 1. 2007 whereby the petition was disposed of on consent terms and to hear and decide the matter on its merits. We shall deal with the aforesaid applications in greater detail as we go along with this judgment.

( 2 ) THE Petitioners challenge the order dated 28th June 1999 passed by the central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi in O. A. No. 2025/1998 whereby the Tribunal has dismissed their aforesaid O. A. The petitioners were seeking a direction to the R