J C CALLA Vs. UNIVERSITY OF JODHPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AFORESAID these three petitions raise common questions of law and, therefore, they are decided by a common order. In order to appreciate the controversy, the facts relating to S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 248 of 1986 are detailed hereinafter.

(2.) PETITIONERS J.C. Calla was appointed as L.D.C. on 2.6.58 in Excise and Taxation Department. The petitioner was thereafter transferred to Directorate of Technical Education, Rajasthan, Jodhpur.

(3.) IT is obvious that according to these rules as approved above, the Ministerial staff existing on 1st January, 1964 was to be given the benefit of past service under any Govt. department of the Rajasthan State, for the purposes of determining the seniority. On 6th may, 1965 a final seniority list of the L.D.Cs. of the University as on 1st January, 1964 was published under the signatures of the Registrar of the University which was placed on record as Ex.4 in which the name of the petitioner J.C. Calla was shown at S.No.7 and the names of Banshilal and D.D. Dave, the petitioners in other two writ petitions, were shown at S. Nos. 5 and 6 respectively.