TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1996 (7) TMI 606
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....Head Clerks was 160-400 while that of the Accountants was 160-450. Later by executive order dated November 11, 1976 the Government had created 10 temporary posts of Assistants and upgraded them to the scale of Rs. 225-500 and some senior candidates came 10 be appointed to those posts. Subsequently, statutory rules under proviso to Article 309 of the Constitution came to be made, increasing the number of posts and scale of pay of all the Head Clerks, Assistants, Stenographers etc. to Rs. 225-500, By proceedings of the Government dated November 2, 1979 with effect from January 1, 1978 promotions of Accountants and Head Clerks were fused together, Pay of Assistants, Head Assistants etc. was revised to Rs. 620-1200, while that of the junior Aud....
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....ose scale of pay remained constant at Rs. 160- 450 which was increased to Rs. 570-1080 as referred to hereinbefore. As a consequence, they cannot be made senior to the appellants. Shri K.R. Nagaraja, learned Counsel appearing for the respondents contended that they were recruited initially as clerks in November 1960 and May 1962; they were promoted as Junior Accountants in 1964-65 and they were further promoted as Accountants in April 1973 and July 1973. They always were treated to be seniors to the appellants who joined the service subsequent to their entry into the initial service. As per the executive instructions issued by the Government, a note was appended under which it was stated that when combined seniority for the purpose of promo....