(1.) Heard G. K. Singh, Senior Advocate assisted by Arvind Srivastava, Advocate on behalf of petitioners. C. B. Yadav, Additional Advocate General on behalf of State of U.P. assisted by Shashank Shekhar, Avocate and Ashok Khare, Senior Advocate assisted by S. K. Mishra on behalf of respondent no.7 to 18.
(2.) Facts in short leading to the present writ petition are as follows :
(3.) It is the case of the petitioners that a provisional seniority list of the cadre, in which they were working was published on 12.12.2005. After objections were filed, the seniority list was finalized on 25.08.2006.