JITENDRA SINGH Vs. ORIENTAL BANK OF COMMERCE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner is a Middle Management Grade Scale-II officer in the service of the Oriental Bank of Commerce. He assails its action in not granting him promotion to Middle Management Grade Scale-III on par with his junior, the 3rd respondent. He seeks a further direction to quash the result dated 25.06.2014 published by the Bank, to the extent his name was not included in the list of promotees.

(2.) The petitioner entered the service of the Bank as a Clerk on 26.04.1984. He was promoted as an officer in Junior Management Grade Scale-I in April, 1992, and as a Manager in Middle Management Grade Scale-II in January, 2003. He was found fit for promotion to Middle Management Grade Scale-III in the year 2011 along with the 3rd respondent but thereafter, he was subjected to disciplinary proceedings along with the 3 rd respondent. Ultimately, the petitioner was visited with the punishment of reduction from Scale-III to Scale-II. A similar punishment was also imposed upon the 3rd respondent.

(3.) The candidature of the petitioner and the 3rd respondent were again considered for promotion to Scale-III during the year 2014-15, when 226 posts in Scale-III were proposed to be filled up. He was called for an interview, vide letter dated 12.06.2014, but when the result was declared on 25.06.2014, the petitioner found that his name did not figure therein but the 3 rd respondent was selected. This was the basis for filing of the present writ petition.