ORDER 07.12.2021 Order No. 05. 1. The State in this petition challenges an order dated 26th August 2010 passed by the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Principal Bench, Bhubaneswar (OAT) in O.A. No.189 of 2010. 2. A short question before the OAT was whether the Opposite Party could count the period during which she worked in the Aeronautics Education Society (Aeronautics U.P. School ‘D’ Zone) prior to its takeover by the Government with effect from 25th August 1983 for the purposes of seniority, qualifying service for pension etc. Against the rejection of her representation in this regard, the Opposite Party approached the OAT. 3. In the impugned order, the OAT has referred to the case of a similar situated teacher Bharat Kumar Hota in whose case the OAT had accepted a similar plea. Some references were also made to other applications filed by similarly situated persons in whose cases also a relief was granted. Referring to all of the above cases, the OAT held “once a benefit has been extended in favour of similarly situated persons, in our considered view the applicant
