JAI MANGAL PRASAD SINGH Vs. STATE OF BIHAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) IN this writ application the petitioner has challenged the gradation list by which the seniority of the petitioner vis -a -vis respondent Nos. 3 and 4 has been changed and pursuant thereto the respondent Nos. 3 and 4 have been promoted in senior selection grade without considering the case of the petitioner.

(3.) THE case of the respondent -State in the counter -affidavit is that in 1968 the petitioner and the respondent Nos. 3 and 4 applied for the post of Junior Engineer in pursuance of the advertisement published on 4th March, 1968. After completion of the selection processes, the Selection Committee prepared a merit list in which the respondent No. 3 has been placed at serial No. 3 and respondent No. 4 at serial No. 6 and the petitioner at serial No. 14. It is stated that though the said merit list does not bear the signature of any member of the Selection Committee, the petitioner and respondent Nos. 3 and 4 were appointed vide Notification Nos. 203 and 205 dated 16.5.1969.