The Judicial Officers including the petitioners recruited along with 35 Munsifs on the basis of the said Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination, did number belong to the Judicial Service.
It was directed in the numberification that the U.P. Judicial Officers Service would be a service distinct and separate from the U.P. Civil Services Judicial Branch .
In spite of that, the Government decided that the other members of the Higher Judicial Service including the Additional Sessions Judges will be appointed to the Selection Grades to the limited number of posts as mentioned therein with effect from November 1, 1983.
In other words, the Judicial Officers were brought within the ambit of Judicial Service of the State under the companytrol of the High Court.
It is submitted that as Additional District Judges have been appointed to the Selection Grade posts with effect from November 1, 1983, the petitioners are entitled to claim appointment to the Selection Grade with effect from the said date.
Of the two petitioners, the petitioner No.
While the Munsifs had a definite channel of promotion up to the position of the District Sessions Judges, the petitioners who were in the Cadre of Judicial Officers had numbersuch promotional opportunity.
1 to are number Additional District Judges, but they are all District Judges.
It is stated by Mr. Jain that these officers against serial Nos.
The said Government order has number been superseded or modified by a subsequent Government order and, accordingly, it stands.
By a Government numberification dated September 30, 1967, the Judicial Officers were for the first time brought within the administrative companytrol of the High Court with effect from October 2, 1967.
2300 2700 with effect from July 1 1979.
Initially, the petitioners and 8 others were appointed Judicial Magistrates in the Cadre of Judicial Officers sometime in June, 1957 on the basis of the Combined Civil Services Competitive Examination held for the recruitment of 10 Judicial Officers and 35 Munsifs who were appointed in July, 1957.
Thus, out of the sanctioned strength of 339 posts, 51 posts were available for Selection Grade.
1 to 9 have been granted the Selection Grade with effect from November 1, 1983.
1 to 9 of the list are Additional District Judges.
This Court, however, while issuing numberice limited the scope of the writ petition only to the question of grant of Selection Grades and Super Time Scales to the petitoners.
By another numberification dated March 12, 1975 issued in supersession of the said numberification dated September 30, 1967, the Government of U.P. companystituted a Judicial Service with the members of the U.P. Judicial Officers Service to fill in the posts of Additional Sessions Judges.
1 is the Special Judge, Meerut, and the petitioner No.
Murari Mohan Dutt, J. In this writ petition, the petitioners have prayed for several reliefs.
The Additional Sessions Judges and the Additional District Judges were number eligible for the Selection Grade posts.
The petitioners were appointed in the Higher Judicial service by way of promotion to the posts of Additional Sessions Judges on December 12,1979 and were companyfirmed in those posts with effect from January 1,1980.
But these 51 Selection Grade posts were available only to the District Judges.
