JUDGMENT:

Heard Sri K. Anantha Rao, learned counsel for the petitioners and learned AGP for Home.

2. The petitioners were appointed as police constables in East Godavari District between the years 1965 to 1972 and have retired from service between 2005 to 2010. Their grievance is that the police constables appointed after the petitioners from the year 1974 onwards were given increments right from the date of their first appointment and were drawing more pay while in service and more pension after their retirement.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submitted that some constables of Nellore District had approached the A.P. Administrative Tribunal (in short ‘Tribunal’) raising such grievance in different O.As which were allowed by granting increments from the date of their respective initial appointments. The decision of the Tribunal was confirmed in W.P.No. 6208 of 2000 and W.P.No. 406 of 2000, vide order dated 24.07.2000. Consequently, the Government issued G.O.Ms.No. 280, Home (Police-D) Department, dated 13.12.2001, giving the benefits to the petitioners of different O.As fixing their pay with increments right from the date of their respective appointments. Claiming similar bene