SPECIAL APPEAL DEFECTIVE No. 59 of 2016 at Lucknow

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW SPECIAL APPEAL DEFECTIVE No. - 59 of 2016 State Of U.P.Thru Prin.Secy.Irrigation Deptt.Lko.And Ors. .....Appellant(s) Versus Mansha Ram Tewari And Ors. .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Appellant(s) : C.S.C. Counsel for Respondent(s) : A.M.Tripathi Court No. - 1 HON'BLE RAJAN ROY, J. HON'BLE RAJEEV BHARTI, J. (C. M. Application No. 16069 of 2016) 1. This is an application for condonation of delay in filing special appeal supported with affidavit. 2. Heard learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State and learned counsel for the respondent. 3. The special appeal has been preferred by the appellant- State challenging the judgment and order dated 29.05.2015 passed in Writ Petition No. 3172(S/S) of 2015. 4. By means of the writ petition claim for counting services of respondents-petitioners as work charge employees for the purpose of grant of increment, selection grade, promotional pay-scale, pension benefits and post retiral dues, as admissible to a regular employee, was allowed in view of a Division Bench judgment in Special Appeal No. 445 of 2011; Bhuvneshwar Rai Vs. State of U.P. and Ors. decided on 18.09.2024. Respondents-petiti