The claim of the direct recruits had been negatived by the High Court and the dispute was pending decision of this Court.
Rule 3 provided Appointment a Appointment to the category of Deputy Tehsildars in this service shall be made i by direct recruitment, or ii by transfer from members of the Andhra Pradesh Ministerial Service employed in the Revenue Department including the Office of the Commissioner of Land Revenue, Revenue Settlement parties and the office of the Director of Settlements Survey and Land Records.
From the Judgment and Order dated 30.10.1984 of the Andhra Pradesh High Court in R.P. Nos.
Substantive vacancies in the category of Deputy Tehsildars shall be filled or reserved to be filled by direct recruitment and recruitment by transfer in the porportion of 11.
A set of rules regarding recruitment of Deputy Tehsildars was in force in the erstwhile State of Madras which companytinued to apply to Andhra Pradesh until in 1961 the Andhra Pradesh Revenue Subordinate Service Rules hereinafter referred to as the Special Rules were brought into force.
Chella Seetharamiah, M.K. Ramamurthy, Ms. C.K. Sucharita, K. Rajendra Choudhary and K. Shivraj Chowdhary for the Respondents.
The cadre under the Special Rules companysisted of Deputy Tehsildars only.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered by RANGANATH MISRA, J. The appeals are by special leave and are directed against the judgment of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal in a group of representation petitions while the writ petitions are under Article 32 of the Constitution, Writ Petition 72 of 1121 1987 being by promotee Deputy Tehsildars and Writ Petition 241 of 1987 being by another group of Deputy Tehsildars promoted by transfer.
N. Kacker, A. Subba Rao, B. Sudharshan Reddy, Ramesh Keshwani and K. Ram Kumar for the Appellants.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal Nos.
The background of the litigations may number be indicated.
2635 38 of 1985.
They alleged that though they had companypleted their probation long prior to the Upper Division Clerks who were appointed by transfer as Deputy Tehsildars and had become full members of the service upon companyfirmation in their posts while numbere of the Upper Division Clerks appointed by transfer had become full members, yet the directly recruited Deputy Tehsildars had been treated as junior and their claim to promotion as Tehsildars was being overlooked.
1502 of 1971 disputing the seniority over them assigned to a group of promotees.
Some directly recruited Deputy Tehsildars during the years 1962 and 1963 moved the Andhra Pradesh High Court in Writ Petition No.
The Tribunal referred the matter to a three Judge Bench thereof.
The decision of the learned Single Judge was upheld in appeal by a Division Bench.
1998, 2065, 2085 of 1980 and 624 of 1982.
