(W.P.No.16193 of 2003 is filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for the issue of a writ of Certiorari calling for the records relating to the order passed in O.A.No.460 of 2002 dated 9.12.2002 by the first respondent and to quash the same.)

Chitra Venkataraman, J.

W.P.Nos.16193 and 16194 of 2003 are filed by the respondent-Board challenging the orders of Central Administrative Tribunal in O.A.No.460 of 2002 and O.A.No.302 of 2002 dated 9.12.2002 respectively.

2. The applicant/respondent before this Court filed O.As. before the Central Administrative Tribunal praying for quashing of the orders dated 12.12.1998 and 12.2.2002, denying upper revision of their pay scale of 5000-8000 and consequently direct the respondents/writ petitioners herein to grant the pay scale of 5000-8000 with effect from 1.1.1996 with consequential benefits including arrears of pay and allowances flowing therefrom.

3. The respondents in the writ petition/applicants before the Tribunal, originally entered the services in the respondent Department in the cadre of a Khalasi in the Loco Workshop, Southern Railway. They were promoted as Mistries on 11.6.1996 then carrying a pay scale of 1400-2