The pleas before the High Court had been filed by retired employees against the airline and the Union government, alleging violations of Articles 14, 16 and 21 of the Constitution on account of stagnation in pay as well as non-promotion.
The question was whether the petitions should be decided as per facts as on the date of institution or whether events fundamentally impacting the jurisdiction of the court will render the petitions non-maintainable.
The High Court had noted that the issue of maintainability of writ petitions owing to privatisation of a company, was no longer res-integra.
While disposing of the petitions, it had stated that the time of pendency of the case will not be counted for calculating limitation period in case the petitioners wished to pursue a different remedy in accordance with law.
The employees then moved the Supreme Court by way of the present appeal.
Source: Barandbench
