Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Rep By Its Chairman And Managing Director v. V Srinivasan
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS
DATED: 03-06-2025
CORAM
THE HONOURABLE MR JUSTICE M.S. RAMESH AND THE HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE V. LAKSHMINARAYANAN and WMP No. 22149 of 2025
1. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, Rep By its Chairman and Managing Director, Headquarters, HL Mathur Lane, Janpath, New Delhi 11001
2. The Chief General Manager Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited Tamilnadu Telecom Circle 80 Anna Salai Chennai 600 002.
Petitioners Vs
1. V Srinivasan 2.N.Alagupackiam 3.S Ramachandra Iyer (Decesased) 4.K.Sathiyaseelan
5.Inbajothi Indra Kumar P 6.V.Ganesan 7.D V Rajan 8.K Selvarajan 9.U Muthusamy 10.R.Jayabalan 11.S .Selvaraj 12.B.Anandan 13.R S Bala Kalyani 14.R.Ramjee 15.K Sundararajan 16.R Vijayalakshmi 17.Ranjani R 18.R.V. Sobhana Respondents PRAYER: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India seeking issuance of Writ of Certiorari, calling for the records of the learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Chennai bench culminating with its order dated 29.02.2024 passed in O.A .No. 1111 of 2015 and quash the same.
For Petitioners : Mr.Gopinathan S For Respondents : Mr.Karthik Rajan
ORDER
(Order of the Court was made by M.S.Ramesh J.) When the respondents herein had sought for stepping up of their pay on par with their juniors, with effect from the date of arising of the anomaly of the senior drawing lesser pay, the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT), through its order dated 29.02.2024 passed in O.A.No.1111 of 2015 allowed the application with a direction to the petitioners herein to step up the respondents' pay on par with their juniors with effect from the date on which the anomaly arose.
2. On perusal of the order impugned in this Writ Petition, it could be seen that in the order passed by CAT in O.A.No.1111 of 2015, reliance was placed in
an another batch of cases in O.A.No.109 of 2011 etc. batch, wherein a similar relief was sought for before the Ernakulam Bench of CAT, which was allowed on 07.12.2011. It is recorded therein that the order of Ernakulam Bench was challenged before the Kerala High Court, as well as before the Hon'ble Supreme Court. A reference is also made to orders passed by CAT, Chennai Bench in O.A.Nos.379 of 2012 and 615 of 2012 on similar lines, which order was also confirmed by this Court in W.P.Nos.21831 & 21832 of 2015 dated 22.07.2015. The aforesaid orders came to be confirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in S.L.P.(C).Nos.509 of 2016 and 771 of 2016 dated 03.10.2018. Since the issues covered in all these matters referred to in the impugned order of CAT are similar in nature, we do not find any irregularity or other infirmity in the said order, since the Tribunal cannot take a different stand from its own orders passed earlier and which has reached its finality.
3. As such, the ground raised in this Writ Petition does not deserve consideration and accordingly, the Writ Petition stands dismissed. No costs. Connected miscellaneous petition is closed.
(M.S.RAMESH J.) (V.LAKSHMINARAYANAN J.) 03-06-2025 nl Index:Yes/No Speaking/Non-speaking order
To Central Administrative Tribunal, Chennai.
M.S.RAMESH J.
AND V.LAKSHMINARAYANAN J.
nl WP No. 19730 of 2025 and WMP No. 22149 of 2025
03-06-2025