SARWAN SINGH MANN Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner has challenged, by means of this writ petition, the final seniority list issued by the Government of Rajasthan on December, 26, 1976 of substantive Assistant Conservators Forests, appointed to the Rajasthan Forest Service.

(2.) INITIALLY , the petitioner submitted that the respondents No. 3 to 8 were junior to him in the cadre of substantive Assistant Conservators of Forests, but as it transpires now, the respondents No. 3 to 7 have retired since the writ petition was filed in this court. The writ petition is, therefore, not pressed as against respondents No. 3 to 7. Thus the case of the petitioner now is that he was senior to respondent No. 8, while in the seniority list dated December 26, 1974, the petitioner's name has been shown at No. 5 and that of respondent No. 8 Shri B.S. Syal has been shown at No. 4, while it should be vice -versa.

(3.) THE submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that as the petitioner was subsequently appointed earlier on the post of Assistant Conservator of Forest than respondent No. 8 Shri B.S. Syal so the petitioner was senior to the said respondent in the cadre of the Assistant Conservator of Forests.