(1.) The challenge: Assailing legality and propriety of the decision taken by the Collector, Balasore vide Order dtd. 9/2/2018 rejecting the claim for counting seniority in service by treating him as appointee of 1997, the petitioner has approached the Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar by way of filing Original Application giving rise to O.A. No.435 of 2018 under Sec. 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985.
(2.) The facts leading the petitioner to come up before this Court as culled out from the pleadings of the writ petition, are narrated.
(3.) In the counter filed on behalf of the Collector, Balasore, it is pointed out that the petitioner has misrepresented the fact that sixty-six numbers of vacancies were advertised in the year 1990, pursuant to which he was found successful candidate in the revised list published in compliance of Order dtd. 6/3/1999 of the Odisha Administrative Tribunal. On the contrary, sixty-six number of vacancies in the post of Junior Clerk including reserved vacancies was reflected in the Advertisement dtd. 1/6/1999 (vide Annexure-1), but not in 1990.