THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE NAGESH BHEEMAPAKA WRIT PETITION Nos.13781 and 29697 of 2017 AND WRIT PETITION No.44079 of 2018

COMMON ORDER:

The petitioners in these writ petitions are Lab Attendants of Osmania University. Their case is that they are equivalent to the Lab Attendants of the Oil Technology Research Institute (OTRI), JNTU, Ananthapur, and are therefore entitled to the same pay scale as that of the Lab Attendants of OTRI (JNTU). However, they have been given the pay scale of Lab Attenders of JNTU under the 'Common Cadre', which they claim is discriminatory, arbitrary, and illegal.

In view of the commonality of the issues and grievances, the writ petitions have been heard analogously and are being disposed of by way of this common order. For the sake of reference, the averments in W.P. No.

13781 of 2017 are taken into consideration.

2. The case of the petitioners, as set out in the writ affidavit in W.P. No. 13781 of 2017, is that they are Lab Attendants in Osmania University, and that there exists an anomaly in their pay scale vis-à-vis the pay scale of their counterparts in the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Oil Technology Research Institute), Ananthapur. The genesis