SUBEDAR RAM Vs. RAM PRASAD SINGH AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri K.S. Rathore, learned Counsel for the Respondent -Appellant. Sri G.H. Singh Gautam appears for the Petitioner -Respondent No. 1. Sri S.S. Yadav, appears for the President Zila Panchayat, Chandauli. Learned standing counsel appears for the State -Respondents.

(2.) THIS special appeal arises out of the judgment of Learned Single Judge dated 12.03.2007, by which he has quashed the orders dated 30.06.2000 and 29.08.2001, promoting the Respondent on the post of Clerk giving preference over the Petitioner, by the Selection Committee on the criteria of seniority -cum -fitness under U.P. Zila Parishad Service Rules, 1970.

(3.) RULE 26 of the U.P. Zila Parishads Service Rules, 1970 provides as follows: