J. B. MEHTA, P. D. DESAI, J.

( 1 ) ON February 13 1976 a Division Bench of this Court made the following peremptory order while allowing Letters Patent Appeal No. 276 of 1974in the result the appeal is allowed The respondents are directed to pay up all the petitioners the arrears of their aforesaid special pay within three months from the date of this order. Rule is made absolute with costs all throughout. The Writ communicating the aforesaid directive was admittedly served on the State Government (one of the respondents to the Letters Patent Appeal) on or about March 8 1976 The certified copy of the judgment of this Court was admittedly made available to the State Government on or about May 13 1976

( 2 ) ACCORDING to the order made by this Court the arrears of special pay were required to be paid to the petitioners on or before May 12 1976 Since payment was not made accordingly the petitioners addressed a letter dated July 22 1976 to the second respondent herein (Secretary to the Government Revenue Department) through their advocate drawing his attention to the noncompliance with the order of the Court and specifying tentatively the amount due to each petitioner and requesting him t

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