JUDGMENT

[WA Nos.2095/2024, 2088/2024, 2111/2024]

Amit Rawal, J.

This order shall dispose of three (3) Writ Appeals bearing Nos. 2088, 2095 and 2111 of 2024 arising out of the common judgment of the Single Bench in various writ petitions (WP(C) No.32886/2018, 32905/2018 and 32888/2018, wherein the appellant-petitioner was not successful in laying challenge to the order of the Controlling Authority dated 29.5.2015 whereby the claim for gratuity of the respondents-claimants from 1979 submitted before the Controlling Authority on retirement has been accepted and the appeal preferred against the same, vide order dated 17.7.2018, was also dismissed.

2. The controversy involved in these cases is common; therefore are being decided together by a common judgment. Respondents-claimants alleged to be the employees of the appellant from 1979. On retirement in the year 2010 filed a claim petition before the controlling authority claiming the gratuity from 1979 though the gratuity from period 1989 had already been paid by the appellant. The payment of the gratuity for the period in controversy was denied by the appellant on the ground that there was a settlement between the Unions of which the resp