PRAKASH MURLIDHAR TEJALE Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This application under Article 226/227 of the Constitution of India is at the instance of one of the respondents in an application under section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act ("Act") and is directed against order dated January 2, 2007 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Calcutta Bench, in O.A. No. 73 of 2006 heard analogously with O.A. No. 164 of 2006, thereby allowing those original applications and setting aside the promotion of the present writ petitioner to the post of the Senior Deputy Director General (Scientific and Technical Support Service) of the Geological Survey of India ("G.S.I."). Consequently, the order dated 29th November, 2004 and other order dated 30th December, 2005 were also quashed. The employer was directed to act strictly according to the Rules prevalent at the time when the vacancy arose by convening a new D.P.C. with further direction that such exercise should be completed within a period of ninety days from the date of communication of the said order.

(2.) Being dissatisfied, the respondent No. 5 before the Tribunal, whose appointment was set aside, has come up with the present writ application.

(3.) The facts giving rise to filing of the present writ application may be summarized thus: