SHYAM KISHORE SINGH SON OF LATE JUGAL KISHORE SINGH R/O VILLAGE Vs. THE UTTAR BIHAR GRAMIN BANK, THROUGH ITS CHAIRMAN, HEAD OFFICE, KALAMBAG CHOWK MUZAFFARPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) There are eight petitioners in this writ application. They were all aspirants for promotion from the post of Assistant to Officer Scale I. However, their hopes and aspirations have been defeated because the respondent Bank have granted promotion to certain persons belonging to the scheduled caste and scheduled tribe category over and above the petitioners. The petitioners, therefore, raise a grievance that such persons, whose names figure in Annexure-5, also respondents 6 to 14 to the writ application,should not have been called for interview and allowed to participate in the process for promotion.

(2.) The Court is not required to go into the details of the process, which has been followed by the Bank, in matter of grant of such promotion because the rule for grant of such promotion is seniority-cum-merit. Examination was held. The result has been published and the results have been brought on record as Annexure-4 by the petitioners themselves. They also do not dispute that initially the last man in, from the list of successful or shortlisted candidates is at serial no.176. Names of these petitioners figure at serial 186 onwards.

(3.) Since certain candidates belonging to scheduled caste and scheduled tribe have been given an opening over and above the petitioners obviously their expectation has been thwarted and that is the reason why the petitioners are looking for some kind of a declaration from this Court that there was no occasion for the Bank to call for such people for interview and even grant promotion.