JUDGMENT :

As common factual matrix as well as legal issues are involved in all these three writ petitions, the same are being decided by a common judgment. The prayer in the writ petitions is for issuance of a direction to the respondents as under:-

“That a writ of mandamus may be issued directing the respondents to grant benefits of notional increments and fix the pay keeping in view the release of revised pay scales and further after fixing the increments and pay the arrears accrued thereto alongwith interest of late grant of notional increments and fixation of pay may be granted in favour of the petitioner from his initial appointment till taking over the school with all other consequential benefits such as facility of pension, leave due, gratuity etc., which were available to the government employees who were working on the similar posts at the time of appointment of petitioner in a Government aided school and the service rendered by the petitioner from his initial appointment till taking over the school may also be counted for the purpose of length of service in the interest of justice.”

2. The case of the petitioners is that they were appointed in Indira Gandhi Middle School K