JUDGMENT :

The petitioners in these writ petitions are judicial officers who are either working or have retired from service as District and Sessions Judges. The 1st petitioner in W.P.(C) No.13336/2022 is the Kerala Judicial Officers Association. The substantial prayers in these writ petitions is with regard to refixation of pension payable to the petitioners and members of the Association by reckoning special pay which is paid to them as part of their emoluments. The documents are being referred to in this judgment as in W.P.(C) No.694/2022 for convenience, unless otherwise specifically mentioned.

2. Heard Sri.Jaju Babu, the learned Senior Counsel appearing for the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.13336/2022, Sri.Jacob P. Alex, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.694/2022, Sri.Mathew Skaria, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.6098/2022, Sri.Hariraj Madhav Rajendran, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.12888/2022 and Sri.Enoch David Simon Joel, the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner in W.P.(C) No.17016/2022, Sri.K.R.Ranjith, the learned Government Pleader and Sri.B.G.Harindranath and Sri.Elvin Pete