JUDGMENT :

D.P. CHOUDHURY, J.

1. These writ petitions have been filed challenging the inaction of the opposite parties for non-sanction of revised arrear scale of pay and grant of dearness allowance (DA) to the petitioners in W.P.(C) No.15202 of 2010, W.P.(C) Nos.1638, 1639 and 3023 of 2003, W.P.(C) Nos.2478 and 2479 of 2005, W.P.(C) Nos.407, 18311, 33083, 33084, 33085, 33086 and 33087 of 2011, W.P.(C) Nos.6003 and 21222 of 2012 who have retired from service either under Voluntary Retirement Scheme or attaining the age of superannuation and the superannuation of petitioner’s husband in W.P.(C) No.930 of 2015.

2. Since the above writ petitions have got common question of law, they are being taken up together for disposal by this common judgment.

FACTS

3. The factual matrix leading to the writ petition is that petitioners in W.P.(C) No.15202 of 2010, W.P.(C) Nos.1638, 1639 and 3023 of 2003, W.P.(C) Nos.2478 and 2479 of 2005, W.P.(C) Nos.407, 18311, 33083, 33084, 33085, 33086 and 33087 of 2011, W.P.(C) Nos.6003 and 21222 of 2012 and the petitioner’s husband in W.P.(C) No.930 of 2015 we