JUDGMENT

M.R. SHAH, J.

Feeling aggrieved and dissatisfied with the impugned judgment and order passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Manipur at Imphal dated 01.03.2016 passed in Writ Appeal No. 28 of 2006, by which the Division Bench of the High Court has allowed the said appeal preferred by the respondent – State and has quashed and set aside the judgment and order dated 24.3.2005 passed by the learned Single Judge in Writ Petition (C) No. 1455 of 2000, by which the learned Single Judge held that the method of calculating the revised pension in paragraph 4.1 of the office memorandum dated 24.4.1999 in respect of Pre-1996 pensioners is different from the method of calculating the revised pension for the Government employees who retired/died in harness on or after 1.1.1996 is arbitrary and violative of Article 14 of the Constitution of India, the original writ petitioners have preferred the present appeal.

2. The facts leading to the present appeal in nutshell are as under:

That the State of Manipur adopted the Central Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1972, as amended from time to time. As per Rule 49 of the Central Civil Services Rules, 1972, a case of a government emplo