(1.) The first of these applications under Article 32 of the Constitution is on behalf of the Delhi Reserve Trained Pool Telephone Operators (RTPTCs) asking for a direction to the Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited to treat all the telephone operators at par after their absorption as regular employees. Three letters addressed to the learned chief justice of this court have been treated as writ petitions and are the remaining ones under Article 32 of the Constitution. The first one (Writ Petition No. 1276 of 1986 is by the Reserve Trained Pool Telephone Operators of Bombay. They claim the self-same relief as asked for in the earlier case; the second one (Writ Petition No. 1623 of 1986 is on behalf of the Reserve Trained Pooloperators in the Department of Posts and they have claimed relief of being placed at par with regular, permanent or temporary employees in the matter of service conditions. The third one (Writ Petition No. 1624 of 1986 is on behalf of substitute employees and casual labourers in the Department of Posts. They have claimed that substitute employees and casual labourers be paid the same emoluments as regular employees.
(2.) In an earlier Writ Petition No. 11764 of 1985 filed by the All India Telegraph Engineering Employees Union Class III of Bombay Telephones where the prayer for treating the Reserve Trained Pool Telephone Operators at par with regular staff had also been asked for, this court made the following order on 1/05/1986:
(3.) It is stand of the respondents that the order of this court has been implemented with effect from 28/07/1986. After that was done, the RTPTOs of Bombay and Delhi have in their respective writ petitions applied for further relief as already indicated. According to the petitioners in these two writ petitions, the RTPTOs are entitled to be brought on par with the regular staff for grant of other service benefits as they have been performing the same duties as performed by regular operators.