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9. It is no doubt true that the learned Single Judge has issued directions for payment of pay scales to employees of HSMITC equivalent to the one which were being paid to those who are brought on deputation. The directions were to be carried within a period of four months from the date of receipt of copy of that order. It was further directed that if the payment of arrears was not made then interest @ 12% per annum was to accrue from the date of accrual to the date of actual payment. In the case of the appellants, the order passed by this Court on 09.11.1995 (P-3) has not been accepted and the appellants were forced to file CWP No. 13440 of 2008 and COCP No. 659 of 2009. As a result, the arrears of revision of pay scale could be paid only somewhere in the year 2009 or 2010. Therefore, there is no justification for respondent to claim that the judgment rendered by the learned Single Judge on 18.05.1993 (P-1) as upheld by the Division Bench in LPA No. 725 of 1993 decided on 22.08.2001 (P-2) was conditional and the interest was payable only if payment of arrears was not made within judicially granted period of four months. That period is over long ago and the plea cannot be raised to deny the relief of payment of interest. We find that the contention raised by the learned counsel for the appellants is meritorious and deserves to be accepted.