Pinaki Mondal, Manoranjan Biswas, Sumanta Pal, Ajay Kumar Saha, Dayamoy Bhattacharjee, Samir Sengupta, Umesh Chandra Cahubey, Achintya Kumar Chakraborti, Sailen Kumar Naskar, Ashim Roy Chowdhury, Arun Kumar Prabhakar, Amitava Saha, Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Dipankar Sarkar, Saurabh Das, Keshab Charan Malik, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Dipankar Patra, Surajit Mukherjee, Santanu Acharya, Tapas Saha, Lakpa Tshering Bhutia, Saikat Das, Sumita Bedi, Krishna Pada Das, Swapan Kumar Majumdar, Bharati Singh, Samiran Maitra, Amarendra Kumar, Mr. Sheetal Madhavrao Shinde vs Union of India

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CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL
Mrs. Urmita Datta Sen, J, Mr. Anindo Majumdar, ACJ
Pinaki Mondal, Manoranjan Biswas, Sumanta Pal, Ajay Kumar Saha, Dayamoy Bhattacharjee, Samir Sengupta, Umesh Chandra Cahubey, Achintya Kumar Chakraborti, Sailen Kumar Naskar, Ashim Roy Chowdhury, Arun Kumar Prabhakar, Amitava Saha, Abhijit Bhattacharyya, Dipankar Sarkar, Saurabh Das, Keshab Charan Malik, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Dipankar Patra, Surajit Mukherjee, Santanu Acharya, Tapas Saha, Lakpa Tshering Bhutia, Saikat Das, Sumita Bedi, Krishna Pada Das, Swapan Kumar Majumdar, Bharati Singh, Samiran Maitra, Amarendra Kumar, Mr. Sheetal Madhavrao Shinde – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Applicants: Mr. A.K. Manna
For the Respondents: Ms. A. Rajyashree, Mr. U. S. Bhattacharyya

Table of Content
1. claim for pay fixation under equal treatment principle. (Para 2)
2. defense against entitlement based on past inaction. (Para 3 , 8)
3. review of judicial precedents affecting claims. (Para 4 , 5 , 9 , 10)
4. equality and fairness in wage determination. (Para 11 , 13)
5. quashing of prior order and extension of pay benefits. (Para 15 , 16)

ORDER

Urmita Datta (Sen), Judicial Member:

The applicants have preferred this O.A. under Section 19 of Administrative Tribunals Act , 1985 seeking the following reliefs:-

2. Brief facts of this case are as under:-

(a) The applicants were appointed mostly as Inspectors of Customs on different dates prior to 01.01.1996 in the then existing scale of pay of Rs.1640-Rs.2900 which was subsequently revised to Rs.2000- 3200 and thereafter to Rs.5500-9000 (as per recommendation of Vth CPC). Subsequently they were promoted to the posts of Superintendent and some of them were elevated to the post of Assistant Commissioner/Dy. Commissioner.

(b) After implementation of the Vth CPC w.e.f. 01.01.1996, parity between the Inspectors of CBI/IB and the Inspectors of Central Excise & Customs which had existed till the time of IVth CPC was disrupted and it

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