Posted At vs Union Of India on 29 May, 2014
33. It is clear from the above highlighted sentence in the order of the Honble Apex Court that the direction given was not in rem, but was only in personam, in respect of the 10 co-applicants of Dr. S.K. Murti, who had not approached the Honble High Court challenging the order passed by the Tribunal in OA No.826/2013, ordering that similar order may be passed in respect of all similarly situated persons, despite the fact that they may not have approached the High Court questioning the order passed by the Tribunal and could have related only to the other earlier portion of the Apex Courts order, in which it was noted that the respondent S.K.Murti had filed OA 826/2003, which OA had been dismissed by the Tribunal, and against which a Writ Petition No14263/2004 had been filed by Dr.S.K. Murti. Therefore, the directions of the Honble Apex Court in respect of similarly situated persons related in personam to only 10 co-applicants of Dr. S.K.Murti in the OA 826/2003, and cannot at all be meant to extend in rem to the Scientists of all the Scientific Ministries and Departments, of all over the country, who were not at all party in the case of Union of India vs. S.K.Murti (supra), as appears to have been viewed by the Coordinate Benches, while deciding the OA No. 1111/2012 and OA No. 2296/2009.