JUDGMENT :

Kardak Ete, J.

We have heard Mr. L. Perme, learned counsel for the appellants and Mr. S. Tapin, learned Senior Government Advocate for the State respondents.

2. This intra-court appeal has been preferred by the appellants against the judgment and order dated 09.05.2022 passed by the learned Single Judge in WP(C) No. 85(AP)/2020.

3. The appellants, thirteen in numbers, have preferred this appeal jointly, who are working as Chowkidar in the Department of Transport, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, assailing the impugned judgment and order dated 09.05.2022 whereby the learned Single Judge has dismissed the writ petition being WP(C) 85(AP)/2020 thereby rejecting the claim of the appellants/ petitioners for grant of benefit of compensatory pay equivalent to 1 (one) month’s pay as that of the operational staff of the Department of Transports, Government of Arunachal Pradesh, the claim based on the Department order dated 09.03.2000.

4. The relevant facts for the purpose of this present appeal is that the Department of Transports, Government of Arunachal Pradesh by order dated 09