1. The rights and liberties flowing from the recommendation given by the “First National Judicial Commission”, which is otherwise called as ‘Shetty Commission’ and implementation of the same by the Government, based on the recommendation given by the High Court of Kerala in so far as it relates to the Judicial Officers who have been deputed to the High Court, is the subject matter involved in this writ petition. The sequence of events is as follows.

2. The petitioners herein who are working as ‘Senior District Judges’ in the Kerala State Higher Judicial Service were identified by the High Court, who were called upon to occupy the offices concerned and are continuing for the past few years. The First National Judicial Pay Commission (‘Shetty Commission’ for short) recommended that ‘special pay’ may be granted to the serving Judicial Officers who are having considerable administrative work ‘beyond the court hours’. The said recommendation was made, after analyzing the facts and figures with regard to the nature of duty, job specification, extent of work that is being discharged, various functions attached to particular posts and such other relevant aspects. the recommendati