ARUN KUMAR SRIVASTAVA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Petitioner is serving as Executive Engineer in the Minor Irrigation Department and was posted at Basti on 16.2.2006, when the writ petition was filed. The Respondent Nos. 3 to 37 are serving as Executive Engineers and Asstt. Engineers in the same department. By this writ petition the Petitioner has challenged the seniority list dated 30.8.2005 on the ground that he has been placed much below his juniors.

(2.) We have heard Shri Anil Kumar Srivastava, learned Counsel for the Petitioner. Learned Standing Counsel appears for the State Respondents. Shri Maqsood Ahmad, Shri Parvez Alam and Shri Vikas Budhwar appear for the contesting private Respondents.

(3.) Brief facts giving rise to this writ petition are as follows: