UMESH GAUTAM Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Shri Amrish Singh holding brief of Shri Vijay Gautam for the petitioner. Learned Standing Counsel appears for respondents.

(2.) THE petitioners were selected as Fire Station Second Officers in the year 1993/98 by direct recruitment. Among these selected candidates 94 were called for training at State Fire Training College, Unnaoon8. 12. 1997. By an order of the Deputy Inspector General, Fire Services, Headquarters Lucknow dated 2. 2. 1998, eight candidates were kept in the waiting list. THE petitioners joined on 12. 2. 1998. Two vacancies were filled from the waiting list as one candidate from general category and one from other backward class category left the training. THE peti tioners 1 and 2 were allocated the State of Uttaranchal in the year 2002.

(3.) THE petitioners alongwith Shri Vijay Prakash Tripathi as applicant No. 3 filed a Claim Petition No. 171/2006 in the State Public Services Tribunal. After exchange of a lavits, the Tribunal dismissed the claim petition holding that the seniority amongst the persons selected had to be determined in accordance with Rule 19 of the United Provinces Fire Services (Recruitment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1945 (in short the Rules of 1945 ).