K. V. Jayakumar, J.

This Review Petition is preferred under Order XLVII Rule 1 r/w Section 114 of the Code of Civil Procedure , seeking to review the judgment of this Court dated 16.12.2024 in O.P(CAT) No.162/2017.

2. The review petitioner herein is the respondent in OP(CAT)

No.162/2017 of this Court and the applicant in O.A.No.957/2014 on the files of the Central Administrative Tribunal. The review petitioner, Janaki C., commenced her service as an Ayah in the Creche under the Telecom District Engineer, Department of Telecommunication (DOT), Palakkad, in 1987. Her initial appointment was on a contingency basis. Following the formation of BSNL in 2000, she was regularized as a Mazdoor in 2001 and retired in 2008. Despite her two decades of service, she was denied pension on the grounds that she had less than ten years of qualifying regular service.

3. The claim of the petitioner before the Central Administrative Tribunal was that 50% of her past casual/contingency service from 1987 to 2000 should be reckoned as qualifying service, along with her 7 years 8 months of regular service, so as to make her eligible for pension. The Tribunal allowed the claim, relying on the 1993 Casual Labo