1 pdp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY APPELLATE SIDE CIVIL WRIT PETITION NO. 284 OF 2003 Union of India, through G.M., Mumbai Division ..Petitioner Vs. N.G. Thomas and ors. ..Respondents Mr. Suresh Kumar for petitioner CORAM: B.H.MARLAPALLE & SMT. ROSHAN DALVI, JJ. August 05, 2009. P.C. This petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution impugns order dated 3/5/2002 passed by the Division Bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal at Mumbai in O.A. No. 730 of 2001. The prayer of the respondents, who were the applicants before the Tribunal for absorption in Group “C” post directly was turned down and the CAT held that they shall be entitled to protection of their pay in the post in which they were working subject to the condition that they would be regularized in Group “D” first. Mr. Suresh Kumar has placed before us a copy of the decision in the case of Bhadei Rai vs. Union of India and ors. [(2005) 11 SCC 298] and the view taken by the 2 CAT in the impugned order has been confirmed by the Supreme Court in the said case. Hence, nothing further survives in this petition and the same is hereby dismissed. Rule discharged. No order as to costs. (SMT. ROSHAN DALVI,J.) (B.H.MARLAPALLE,J.)