BHUKHAR MAHTO Vs. STEEL AUTHORITY OF INDIA LIMITED

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the counsel for the parties.

(2.) THE petitioner in this writ application has prayed for the issuance of a direction to the respondents to grant him promotion to Grade -P5 with effect from 1998 and' also to grant him promotion to Grade -P6 with effect from 2002 with all monetary benefits thereon.

(3.) THE petitioner had initially joined service as a Khalasi in the year 1979 and was later on promoted to Grade -P3 and subsequently in P4 in the year 1994. Thereafter two promotions to Grade -P5 and P6 became due to him in the year 1998 and 2002 respectively. But despite the fact that the petitioner was exonerated in the departmental proceedings and during the pendency of the proceedings, his suspension order was recalled and he was allowed to resume his service, his promotion has not been given to him.