(1.) Both these writ applications involving common questions of fact and law were taken up for hearing together and are being disposed of by this common judgment
(2.) The Petitioners in these applications have prayed for a direction upon the Respondents to shift back the date of promotion to the post of Electrical Executive Engineer in the G.T.O. Cadre with effect from 29th December, 1979, as allegedly from that date the juniors were promoted to the said post is also the consequential benefits attached there to.
(3.) The Petitioners were appointed directly the post of Assistant Electrical Engineer in the year 1965. The private Respondents were promoted to the post of Assistant Electrical Engineer in the years 1965-66 after the appointment of the Petitioners.