CENTRAL ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL AHMEDABAD BENCH O.A. No.531/2025 with MA No.495/2025 Dated this the 09th day of December, 2025 CORAM : Hon’ble Shri Jayesh V Bhairavia, Member (J)

Hon’ble Dr. Hukum Singh Meena, Member (A)

Vijay Singh Dhusia Assistant Commissioner of Central GST, Central Excise & Customs House No.2 Hari Om Colony, Opposite Shyam Society Danteshwar, Vadodara- 390 011. ………………….. Applicant.

(By Advocate Ms. Dhruti J Shukla)

VERSUS Ahmedabad

1. Union of India, Represented by the Secretary, Department of Revenue, North Block, New Delhi 110 002.

2. Central Board of Indirect taxes & Customs, Ministry of Finance - Notice to be served through The Chairman, CBIC, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue, North Block, New Delhi - 110 002.

3. The Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi -110 001.

4. The Chief Commissioner of CGST & Service.

Vadodara Zone, Cadre Controlling Authority for Gujarat State, 2nd Floor, Annexe Building, CGST Bhavan, Race Course Circle, Vadodara - 390 007.

5. The Commissioner of Central Excise, Customs & Service Tax, GST Bhawan, Vadodara-I Commissionerate, Race Course Circle, Vadodara - 390 007. …..Respondents

ORDER (ORAL)

Per: Hon'ble Shri Jayesh V Bhairavia, Member (J)

1. Heard Ms. Dhruti J. Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant.

2. Considering the facts and grounds stated in the MA No.

495/2025, seeking condonation of delay, same is allowed.

3. The applicant being aggrieved with the denial of grant of benefit of upgraded pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.1996, has filed the present OA.

4. Ms. Dhruti J Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant mainly submitted that this Tribunal while considering the identical claim for grant of enhanced pay scale in respect to the similarly placed officials (Rtd.) of the same department in group of OAs i.e., OA Nos. 311 to 325 of 2025 decided on 04.08.2012, as also in another group of OAs Ahmedabad i.e., OA Nos. 348 to 359 of 2025 decided on 12.08.2025, granted liberty to the applicants therein to file their comprehensive representation and the respondents has been directed to reconsider the said comprehensive representation of the applicant(s) without influence of their earlier order about denial for grant of enhanced pay scale and decided it in light of the judgment/order passed by the Hon'ble Apex Court on the said point mentioned in the order.

4.1 Learned counsel for the applicant by referring the aforesaid direction issued by this Tribunal in identical case i.e. O.A. No. 426/2025 & other similar matter dated 26.09.2025 would argue that in the present case, the applicant will be satisfied, if the identical order be passed by this Tribunal granting liberty to the applicant to his/her comprehensive representation before the respondents to sustain their claim for grant of enhanced pay scale and direction be issued to re- consider the same as per the direction issued by this Tribunal in cogent matter as referred hereinabove.

5. Heard the learned counsel for the applicant and perused the material on record.

6. It emerges from the record that this Tribunal while considering the claim of grant of enhanced pay scale w.e.f. 01.01.1996 as prayed for in the group of OAs i.e., OA Nos. 311 to 325 of 2025 decided on 04.08.2012, as also in another cognate group of OAs i.e., OA Nos. 348 to 359 of 2025 decided on 12.08.2025 & OA Nos. 426 to 435 of 2025 decided on 26.09.2025 had granted liberty to the applicants therein to file their comprehensive representation and the respondents directed to reconsider the claim of the applicants therein in the light of the observations made in the said orders. Therefore, we deem it appropriate to refer the said order passed by this Tribunal in OA No. 311 to 325 of 2025 of this Tribunal dated 04.08.2025 for ready reference and the same reads as under:

Ahmedabad “….

2. The applicant being aggrieved with the order dated 17.11.2023 whereby the O/o of respondent nos. 4 & 5 conveyed to the applicant that the Department of Expenditu