G.M. CHHATTANI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) INSTANT petition is directed against order dt. 19.05.2011 passed by the ld. Central Administrative Tribunal.

(2.) THE facts which can be noticed from present proceedings are that the petitioner joined service as Office Assistant on 31.08.1962 and after getting promotion in Gr. -II and thereafter in Gr. -III of Senior Section Supervisor retired from service after attaining the age of superannuation in July, 2000. His sole grievance was that the promotions were made w.e.f. 29.08.1995/17.01.1995 of the incumbents junior to him in the cadre and he has been deprived of his fair right of consideration for promotion to Gr. -IV.

(3.) IN response to the Original Application filed by them, reply was filed and while contesting claim of the applicants, it was averred that they all have retired from service between 1997 -2001 and the Original Application came to be filed in 2009 which was highly belated & barred by limitation and at the same time, it was also averred that the applicants were not in the purview of promotion in Gr. -IV while in service and all of them retired in Gr. -III/Senior Section Supervisor and the so -called alleged juniors namely S.R. Pathik and M.L. Bhatt were promoted to Gr. -IV on their turn on 22.08.2001 and 15.07.2002 respectively and as regards their promotion dt. 17.01.1995, it was later on revised, as per order of promotion to Gr. -IV has been granted to the persons who are alleged to be junior, after the applicants have been retired from service and at least they cannot say that their right of fair consideration has been jeopardized.