COMMON ORDER

These Writ Petitions have been filed challenging the order passed by the second respondent, thereby ordered to refix the pay of the petitioners.

2. The salary of the petitioners was refixed after a lapse of nearly 14 years. Most of the petitioners have already retired from service, while some of them are still in service. While all the petitioners, were working in the cadre of Lab Assistant under the second respondent, salary had been fixed pursuant to the communication dated 30.05.2011, thereby the benefits of the Government order in G.O.Ms.No.63, Finance (Pay Cell) Department, dated 26.02.2011, were extended to all Public Sector Undertakings/Statutory Boards, including the second respondent herein. The second respondent, through its Board Resolution, extended the benefits of the said Government order to the category of Lab Assistants. In fact, the second respondent's Committee, consisting of the Finance Secretary, passed the resolution approving such extension.

3. While being so, after a lapse of eleven years, the respondents, all of a sudden, relying upon a subsequent Government letter, proposed to revise and reduce the pay fixation of the petitioners. It is not the ca