JUDGMENT

Satish Chandra Sharma, C.J. The present writ petition is arising out of an order dated 07.12.2004, passed in O.A. No. 704/2004 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) rejecting the Original Application preferred by the Petitioner. The facts of the case reveal that the Petitioner, at the relevant point of time, was serving Trained Graduate Teacher (Science), (TGT (Science) for short) at Government Boys Senior Secondary School No.1 Shaktinagar, Delhi-7 and he was granted a time bound senior scale of TGT on 10.03.1996 on completion of 12 years of qualifying service in the entry scale of TGT and his basic pay was fixed at Rs.2000/- in the pay scale of Rs.1640-2900. That the Central Civil Services Revised Pay Scale Rules, 1997, came into force in September/October 1997. However, the pay scales were upgraded w.e.f. 01.01.1996.

2. The Rules of 1997 provided that when the pay of a Government Servant is brought over to the revised scale from a date later than 01.01.1996 his pay from such later date is to be fixed under the Fundamental Rules and not as provided under Rule 7 of the CCS Revised Pay Rules 1997.

3. The Government of India issued an Office Memorandum date