New Delhi, Aug. 14 -- The Supreme Court dismissed a plea by former judicial officers re-employed as Presiding Officers of Central Government Industrial Tribunals-cum-Labour Courts (CGIT-cum-LCs), seeking pay scales equivalent to those granted to officers of other national tribunals under the 6th Pay Commission.

A bench of Justice SVN Bhatti and Justice NV Anjaria held that re-employed officers can be treated as a separate class for pay fixation.

The petitioners, posted in New Delhi and Hyderabad, had argued that CGIT-cum-LCs were comparable to CAT, ITAT and DRT and that denying them the 6th Pay Commission scales violated Articles 14 and 16.

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