Arun Tandon, J. - (1.) THIS bunch of 9 writ petitions has been filed by the recognised Association/Union of Senior Accountants, Accountants, Clerks and Supervisors as well as other employees working in the office of Accountant General (A and E) I and II, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad, along with individual employees belonging to the said categories of employees working in the said office.
(2.) ALL these writ petitions are directed against one common judgment of the Central Administrative Tribunal, ALLahabad Bench, ALLahabad, dated 2nd January, 2004, passed in the group of Original Applications, being O.A. Nos. 1313 of 2003, 1314 of 2003, 1386 of 2003, 1369 of 2003, 1378 of 2003, 1379 of 2003, 1381 of 2003, 1382 of 2003, 1383 of 2003, 1384 of 2003, 1385 of 2003 and 1386 of 2003. We have heard Sri T. P. Singh, senior advocate, assisted by Sri Vikas Budhwar as well as other counsels on behalf of the petitioners, Sri B. N. Singh senior standing counsel on behalf of Union of India and Sri Amit Sthalekar on behalf of respondent Nos. 2 to 5. Original applications, referred to above, were filed by the petitioners feeling aggrieved by the transfers made vide Office Order No. PAG (Audit)-1/ Admn./ Uttaranchal/ 171, dated 29.10.2003 and No. DGA/ Transfer/232, dated 31.10.2003, whereby certain Senior Accounts Officer, Accounts Officer, Asstt. Account Officers, Section Officers, Supervisors, Senior Accountants and Accountants from the office of A.G. (AandE) I and II, Allahabad, were transferred to the office of A.G. (Audit and Accounts) Uttaranchal at Dehradun.
(3.) THE original applications filed by the petitioners, after exchange of affidavits, were dismissed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Allahabad Bench, Allahabad, by means of the judgment dated 2nd January, 2003. Hence present writ petition. Material facts for adjudication of controversy at hand are State of Uttaranchal, was created under the U. P. State Reorganisation Act, 2000, passed by the Parliament, whereby certain parts of the State of Uttar Pradesh were carved out for creation of the new State of Uttaranchal.;