MADHU ARORA Vs. RAJASTHAN HIGH COURT

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioners herein are working on the post of Stamp Reporter cum Court Fee Examiner in the Rajasthan High Court. They have preferred the instant writ petition on 11.5.2018 which was subsequently amended on 3.12.2018, seeking the following relief:

(2.) The basic grievance raised by the petitioners in this writ petition is that despite the post of Stamp Reporter cum Court Fee Examiner having been placed equivalent and at par with the post of Court Master by virtue of an order dated 30 th August 2016 published in the Rajasthan Gazette dated 18th October 2016 and corrected by the Gazette errata dated 15.12.2016 issued in compliance of various judicial pronouncements, the petitioners are being ignored from consideration for promotion to the post of Assistant Registrar/Court Officer by treating their posts to be the feeder posts in the channel of promotion.

(3.) The writ petition came to be filed in the year 2018 whereafter, notices were issued and reply of the Rajasthan High Court was received. Another stream of employees of the Rajasthan High Court viz. Administrative Officer Judicial/Assistant Accounts Officer, Guest House Manager Gr.1, which constitute one of the feeder cadres for filling up the post of Assistant Registrar by way of promotion, moved an application (I.A. No.3596/2018) for their joinder as respondents in the writ petition, which was accepted by this Court vide order dated 3.8.2018 and those applicants were impleaded as respondents No.3 to 30 and are represented by Shri Nikhil Dungawat Advocate. Thus, a stream of employees likely to be affected by the out come of this writ petition are duly represented and have been heard in these proceedings.