ORDER

Per: - Rajinder Singh Dogra, Judicial Member

1. The applicants have filed the present Original Application under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985 seeking the following reliefs: -

a) A writ, order or direction commanding the respondents to extend the benefit of the Old Pension Scheme (OPS) to the applicants, on the ground that the advertisements pursuant to which they applied (2005, 2006, 2008 and 2009) were issued during the subsistence of OPS and the entire selection process commenced prior to the enforcement of NPS;

b) A writ, order or direction declaring that the applicants shall be deemed to have been appointed under OPS, and that NPS shall not be applicable to them in view of the settled legal position that the service conditions existing at the time of advertisement govern the selection;

c) A writ, order or direction directing the respondents to transfer the entire NPS corpus, along with all accrued interest, from PFRDA to the General Provident Fund (GPF) accounts of the applicants;

d) A writ, order or direction directing the respondents to grant all consequential benefits flowing from OPS, including but not limited to qualifying service, pension, family p