JUDGMENT

Krishn Kumar Lahoti, Acting C.J. - This batch of appeals is arising out of a common order passed by the learned Single Judge in a batch of writ petitions dated 4.4.2012. The common question involving in all the appeals is whether the Assistant Professors appointed through emergency appointment in term of Rule 13(5) of the M.P. Educational Service (Collegiate Branch) Recruitment Rules, 1967 are entitled to claim benefit of services rendered by them prior to their regularization for grant of senior/selection grade pay-scale.

2. The history of the case deserves to be referred before considering the contentions of the parties;

(i) That, one Dr.Smt.Seema Raizada alongwith some other Assistant Professors, who were appointed in accordance with the provisions of M.P. Educational Service (Collegiate Branch) Recruitment Rules, 1967 as an emergency appointee, claimed benefit of grant of senior payscale and selection grade from the appellants.

(ii) When such benefit was not extended to them, they had filed an original application before the M.P. State Administrative Tribunal, Jabalpur