(1.) R. K. Jadeja and Gujarat Rajya Ardhasarkari Audhyogik Karmachari Sangh (petitioners in Special Civil Appln. No. 8259/96) have filed this petition against the State of Gujarat, Deputy Conservator of Forest under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India. In the petition it has been alleged that petitioners employees are daily rated employees and belonging to Class IV employees and as State of Gujarat and Forest Department denied certain benefits of leave pay scale to the employees of the Forest Department, they have filed this petition praying that the respondents be directed to implement the said benefits as granted to the daily wage employee of other departments.
(2.) The facts giving rise to this petition are as under:
(3.) BACKGROUND OF THE MATTER (1st Award) (1st Round of Litigation)