J U D G M E N T

1. Having heard the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel appearing for the respondent No.1/Secretary, Indian Council of Agricultural Research [“ICAR”] as well as the learned counsel appearing for respondent No.2/Secretary, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance [“DoE”] and on perusal of the record, this Court finds that the respondents are clearly in contempt of the direction of this Court dated 19.09.2019 passed in W.P.(C) 4178/2015, which upheld the decision of the Central Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, New Delhi [“CAT”] dated 01.07.2014 in OA No. 3763/2012.

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2. Shorn of unnecessary details, the ICAR is an autonomous organization wholly funded by the Government of India, which is stated to be running several Research Institutions, Directorates, National Bureaus and as many as four Universities located all over the country, for which purposes it employs large number of manpower. The issue concerns about 662 Personal Assistants [“PAs”] and Private Secretaries [“PSs”] working in different institutions and the present matter concerns the claim of parity of pay of PAs (Stenographers Gra