K SUBBAIYAH Vs. COMMISSIONER AND DIRECTOR OF FISHERIES

JUDGEMENT

(1.) . The petitioner joined the Fisheries Department as Office Assistant, and his services were regularised on 05.10.1978. The petitioner is continuing on the same post. The seniority number of the petitioner in the cadre of Office Assistant is 36, and the next channel of promotion for the Office Assistant, is to the post of Fisheries Overseer Grade II.

(2.) THE petitioner therefore filed number of representations requesting the respondents to promote him to the post of Fisheries Overseer Grade II, but the representations filed by the petitioner was rejected on the ground that the post of Fisheries Overseer Grade II did not fall in the cadre of the petitioner, as the post of Office Assistant was not a feeder cadre, therefore he could not be considered for promotion.

(3.) IT is the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner that the Joint Director of Fisheries found the petitioner to be fully qualified to be included in the panel for promotion to the post of Fishery Overseer Grade II, but in spite of the directions issued by the Joint Director, the name of the petitioner was not included.