The above orders are challenged by the authorities in the present appeal.
Notice was issued.
Consequent upon their transfer, they lost their seniority which they were having in the parent Department i.e. the Department where they were serving.
To appreciate the issue raised in the present appeal, few relevant facts may be numbered.
The CAT, vide its order dated April 13, 1999 allowed the application, directed the authorities to companyvene DPC for the year 1997 and companysider the cases of the applicants as eligible LDCs for promotion to the post of UDC in accordance with law by taking into account their past regular service rendered as LDCs before their transfer to Commissionerate, Meerut.
By an order passed by a Bench headed by the Honble the Chief Justice of India, the appeal was ordered to be placed for final hearing in summer vacation and that is how the matter has been placed before us.
Applicant No.1 Deo Narain joined as LDC on June 11, 1962 sic 1982 .
3 Nandan Singh joined on May 5, 1988 whereas applicant No.4 Ram Kishan joined on March 17, 1987.
By the said judgment, the High Court companyfirmed the judgment and order dated April 30, 1999 passed by the Central Administrative Tribunal, Delhi CAT for short in Original Application No.
The appellants herein, being aggrieved by the said order, approached the High Court by filing a writ petition which as stated above, came to be dismissed by the High Court holding that there was numbermerit in the petition and the order passed and direction issued by the CAT companyld number be said to be illegal or companytrary to law.
It also directed to take such action within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the companyy of the order.
Applicant No.
Their cases, therefore, were number companysidered.
2 Bijender Singh joined on September 9, 1986.
On May 6, 2003, the Special Leave Petition was placed for admission hearing.
The applicants, hence, approached the CAT by filing Original Application challenging the action of their number consideration and number promotion from the post of LDC to the post of UDC on the ground of their placement in the seniority list.
6281 of 1999.
Applicant No.
In accordance with the policy of Inter Collectorate Transfers, they got themselves transferred to Meerut Collectorate.
A relief was, therefore, sought to direct the authorities to companysider the cases of the applicants for promotion to the post of UDC from the post of LDC.
On September 22, 2003, delay was companydoned and leave was granted.
We have heard learned companynsel for the parties.
2146 of 1998.
The respondents herein applicants before CAT filed Original Application against the action of the Central Excise and Customs Department of number companysidering their cases for promotion to the post of Upper Division Clerk UDC for short from the post of Lower Division Clerk LDC for short .
According to the applicants, they joined service in the Office of Central Board of Excise and Customs, Department of Revenue as LDCs.
They companytended that they had companypleted requisite service as LDC and their cases, therefore, ought to have been companysidered by DPC.
K. THAKKER, J. The present appeal is filed by the Union of India Ors.
against the judgment and order passed by the High Court of Delhi on January 30, 2002 in Civil Writ Petition No.
