Raj an, J.

Petitioners in these Original Petitions are retired District Educational Officers. While working as High School Assistants, they were promoted as Assistant Educational Officers ( a.e.o.). By G.O. (P)_ No. 57/80/G.Edn. dated 22.5.1980 the post of A.E.O. was upgraded and the scale of pay was made equivalent to that of Headmaster. Consequently, the petitioners were reverted as High School Assistants. Some of the persons effected by the above reversion filed Original Petitions before this Court. Finally, the matter was taken up before the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared that the reversions were illegal. The above decision is reported in C.C. Padmanabhan v. Director of Public Instruction (MR 1981 SC 64). The operative portion of the above decision reads as follows:

"In the result all the five appeals succeeded and are accepted. The impugned judgment is set aside and the orders transferring' the appellants from the post of aeo s to those of HS As are quashed. As a necessary consequence if any of the appellants had to relinquish charge of the post of aeo in compliance with such orders, he shall be deemed to have continued to hold the post of an aeo (inspite