( 1 ) WITH a view to espouse the cause and vindicate the grievances of its members, the Class IV employees Association of High Court of Judicature at Allahabad and its Secretary, Manbodh yadav, have knocked the doors of this Court in inordinate and compelling circumstances by filing the present petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of Indian to mandate the State government of Uttar Pradesh not to back out from its commitment made and resolution adopted to accord post to post parity-in the matter of grant of pay scales which are admissible to their counterparts in Delhi High Court, w. e. f. 1. 1. 1986.

( 2 ) IN its historical retrospect, the employees of this Court were always treated as inferior to the employees of the State Secretariat in the matter of pay scales. It was only in the year 1968 that, to ameliorate, to some extent the conditions of the employees of this Court, there was revision in the pay structure and it was brought at par with the staff of the State Secretariat. There was general unrest in the employees of the various departments of the State. They were agitating for the grant of pay parity with their counter parts in the Central Government