Appellant was appointed in the post of District Transport Officer on probation on or about 30.11.1984.
Indisputably, he was put on probation for a period of two years.
Every District Transport Officer recruited by numberination on or after the appointed date shall be required to pass the examination within the period of probation of two years or within the extended period of probation, as the case may be, and within three chances Provided that if he is number able to pass the examination within the regular period of probation of two years, he shall be liable to the same companysequences as provided under sub rule 3 of Rule 5.
The relevant Examination Rules applicable to the case read as under Rule 4 Period within which Examination is to be passed Every District Transport Officer appointed by promotion after the appointed date shall be required to pass the examination within the period of two years from the date of the appointment and within three chances.
B. Sinha, J. Leave granted.
Consequences of failure to clear a departmental examination in terms of the Rules known as District Transport Officers Motor Vehicle Department Department Examination Rules, 1984 for short, the Rules is in question in this appeal which arises out of a judgment and order dated 22.10.2002 passed by a Division Bench of the High Court of Bombay, Bench at Nagpur whereby and whereunder a writ petition filed by the appellant herein against the judgment and order dated 15.3.2002 passed by the Maharashtra Administrative Tribunal dismissing the Transfer Application No.300 of 1992, was dismissed.
He joined the services in January 1985.
The basic fact of the matter is number in dispute.
