ORDER

Mohammed Nias.C.P., J.

The Union of India and its officials have filed these original petitions aggrieved by the orders passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), Ernakulam Bench allowing the applications filed by the respondents herein that quashed Annexures A1 and A2 orders and held that the respondents are entitled to get their initial pay fixed treating Rs.6500/- as existing basic pay as on 01.01.2006 with all consequential benefits..

2. The relevant facts leading to the original petitions are as follows:-

The respondents were working in different grades of the Ministerial cadre in the Indian Navy. The Assistants were drawing a pay scale of Rs.5000-8000 and the Office Superintendents were drawing a pay scale of Rs.5000-9000 under the 5th Central Pay Commission (CPC). On implementation of the Assured Career Progression Scheme (ACP Scheme), the LDCs and the UDCs were granted their second and first financial upgradation and were placed in the scale of pay of Assistants at Rs.5000-8000 (pre-revised) when they were granted the second and the first financial upgradations respectively. However, after the 6th central Pay Commission the two posts carrying the pay of Rs.5000