MAHARASHTRA VIKRIKAR KARAMCHARI SANGATHAN Vs. STATE OF MAHARASHTRA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) CIVIL APPEAL NO. 7717 OF 1994

(2.) Civil Appeal No. 6316 of 1997 is filed by the State of Maharashtra impugning the judgment and order dated 23rd February, 1989 rendered by the High Court of Bombay in Writ Petition No. 2742 of 1987. The dispute in this Civil Appeal pertains to the determination of seniority of Sales Tax Inspectors who were promoted (on absorption) from two different sources, namely, revenue department and Sales Tax Department, Bombay. The dispute thus in this civil appeal is confined to the inter se seniority of promotees from these two sources.

(3.) We may first deal with the Civil Appeal No. 7717 of 1994. The facts which are necessary for the disposal of the appeal may be stated briefly as under:-