JUDGMENT :

1. Rule returnable forthwith. Mr. Kurven Desai, learned Assistant Government Pleader waives service of notice of rule on behalf of respondents.

2. With consent of the learned advocates appearing for the respective parties, the matter is taken up for final hearing today.

3. The only prayer in this petition is to direct the respondents to revise the pension as well as gratuity calculating from the date of initial appointment to the petitioners till their date of retirement.

4. The Coordinate Bench of this Court considered the identical issue by a decision dated 19.12.2018 rendered in Special Civil Application No.9702 of 2018 and allied matters. The order dated 19.12.2018 reads as under:

With negligible variance in the set of facts, the issue involved in the captioned three petitions being identical, they constitute a group, which were heard together and are being treated for disposal by this common order.

1.1 In the facts and circumstances of the case and with the consent and request of learned advocates appearing for the parties, Rule returnable forthwith in each of the petitions. Learned Assistant Government Pleader Mr. K. M. Antani waives service of Rule on behalf of responde