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DELHI HIGH COURT
JYOTI SINGH
Meenu Sachdev – Appellant
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Managing Committee Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar – Respondent
Jyoti Singh, J. (Oral)--Present writ petitions have been filed by the Petitioners praying inter alia for issuance of a writ of mandamus directing Respondent No. 1/School to pay salaries and emoluments to the Petitioners as per the recommendations of the 7th Pay Commission w.e.f. 01.01.2016 and correct fixation of salaries from 01.01.2006 giving the benefit of pay revision under 6th CPC recommendations, at par with their counterparts in the Government and Government aided schools, by virtue of provisions of Section 10(1) of Delhi School Education Act and Rules, 1973 (hereinafter referred to as `DSE&R'). On account of similitude of facts and common questions of law in all the writ petitions, they have been heard together and are being decided by this common judgment. For the sake of convenience, Respondent No. 1, which is the Managing Committee of Sri Sathya Sai Vidya Vihar, is being referred to as `School' and Respondent No. 2/Director of Education is being referred to as `DOE', hereinafter.
2. Factual matrix to the extent germane for deciding the present petitions is that Petitioners are employed with the School and their respective dates of appointments and other relevan
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