the Government Order in G.O.(Ms).No.216, Finance and Pay Cell Department, dated 22.03.1993, introducing uniform scale of pay for all the Secondary Grade Teachers. One N.Govindarajan filed an Original Application before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal for claiming benefits under the Government Order in G.O.(Ms).No.216, Finance and Pay Cell Department, dated 22.03.1993 and by order dated 07.10.1998, the Tribunal allowed the Original Application and gave a direction to the authorities to fix the scale of pay in terms of the Government Order in G.O.(Ms).No.216, Finance and Pay Cell Department, dated 22.03.1993. After a lapse of nearly nine years, the Government has filed a Writ Petition before this Court in W.P.No.8747 of 2009 challenging the correctness of the order passed by the Tribunal. By order, dated 14.07.2009, this Court dismissed the Writ Petition on the ground of delay and laches with costs of Rs.10,000/- and this Court directed the Government authorities to comply with the order of the Tribunal. Aggrieved over the same, the Government has filed SLP (Civil) C.C.No.2746 of 2010 before the Hon’ble Supreme Court and the same was also dismissed. Consequently, the Government was constrained to pass G.O.(Ms).No.258, dated 06.09.2010 for granting relief to the above said individual, viz., N.Govindarajan, who had filed the petition before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal. Various
