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Mr. P.K. Basu, Member (A) The applicants in this case, all appeared for the Civil Services Examination, 2002 and were selected in Delhi, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli Civil Services (DANICS). They were issued offer of appointment on 4.12.2003 and 27.01.2004. They joined on 1.01.2004 (applicants no.1 and 3) and on 9.02.2004 (applicants no.2, 4, 5 and 6).

2. The applicants grievance is that they are being treated under the new pension scheme on the ground that they joined service on 1.01.2004 and 9.02.2004 and the new pension scheme became effective from 1.01.2004. Their claim is that as they were selectee of 2003 batch i.e. before 1.01.2004, they should be granted pension under the old Pension Scheme. They have relied on a judgment of the Hon'ble High Court in W.P. (C) 3834/2013, Parma Nand Yadav and ors. Vs. Union of India and ors., in which case also letters of appointment were delayed by three months and were issued in December, 2003, as a result of which they were being deprived of the old Pension Scheme. The Writ was allowed directing the respondents to treat the petitioners therein under the old Pension Scheme. Reliance is also placed on the order of this Tribunal in OA 1624/2015, Pankaj Kumar Singh Vs. Union of India and others. Again in this case, the applicant's appointment letter was delayed because of delay in receiving report of the District Collector regarding verification of character and antecedents and the Tribunal allowed the OA directing the respondents to treat the applicant as beneficiary of Old Pension Scheme.