JUDGMENT :

Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J.

CMP(T) No. 796 of 2021

Allowed and disposed of.

CWPOA No. 106 of 2020

2. With the consent of the parties, the matter is heard at this stage.

3. The projected case of the petitioners is that their services of all the petitioners were terminated by the respondents on 18.08.1987 on the ground that their JBT certificates were found fake and bogus. The petitioners instituted Original Application No. 346 of 1987 before the erstwhile Himachal Pradesh Administrative Tribunal, against termination of their services. Several other OAs were also instituted by similarly placed persons. The Original Application was allowed on 26.09.1995. The termination of the services of the petitioners was held to be illegal and invalid. The respondents were directed to reinstate the petitioners forthwith.

4. The judgment passed by the learned Tribunal was assailed by the respondents-State before the Hon’ble Apex Court in Civil Appeal Nos. 7835-7842 of 1996. The Hon’ble Apex Court modified the judgment of the Tribunal with following order passed on 09.12.1997: -

“The High Court allowed the writ petitions of the respondents mainly on the ground that the contesting respondents have not