P. 10013 of 1982 J which was allowed on 30.7.85 and a direction was issued to the present appellants to companysider the claim of the respondent for ante dating his promotion on ad hoc basis by applying the same rules and principles on which, his immediate senior, A.K. Anujan, was promoted to the post of Senior Store Keeper, Grade I. In pursurance of the above judgment, the case of the respondent was companysidered by the Review Departmental Promotion Committee on 15th October, 1985, which was the opinion that, since the respondent had companypleted 3 years of regular service as Store keeper companymencing from 6th June, 14977, only on 7th June, 1980, he companyld number be promoted as Store Keeper earlier than 1980.
The respondent made a request for his transfer as a Store Keeper in the Naval Physical Oceanographic Laboratory NPOL , Cochin, which was accepted on companypassionate ground an on 6th June, 1977, he was transferred to that post, but was placed at the bottom of the seniority list of store Keepers there.
on 22nd August, 1980, the respondent was promoted to the post of Senior Store Keeper.
One K. Anujan, who was the immediate senior of the respondent in the Grade of Senior Store Keeper was promoted to this intermediate post of Senior Store keeper, Grade I on 31st August, 1982.
He got the status of quasi permanent on 27th April, 1974 and became permanent with effect from 1st May, 1974.
When this claim was number entertained, the respondent approached the Kerala High Court by a Writ Petition No.
Subsequently, in the same Department, he was appointed as a Store Keeper on 27th April, 1971 in the Central Ordnance Depot, Pune.
On the basis of the decision of the Departmental Promotion Committee, the order dated 30th October, 1985 was passed by the appellants, which was challenged by the respondent before the Central Administrative Tribunal, madras Bench, which by its judgment dated 23rd February, 1988, has allowed the claim petition and issued the following directions The applicants service as Store Keeper at Pune at least from 1.5.1974 when he was made a permanent Store Keeper should be reckoned as qualifying service for the purpose of eligibility for promotion as Senior Store Keeper at NPOL, Cochin.
On 15th July, 1980, a new post of Senior Store Keeper, Grade I was created as an intermediate grade between the posts of Senior Store Keeper and Store Superintendent.
SAGHIR AHMAD, J. The respondent was appointed as a Lower Division Clerk on November 15, 1969 in the Ministry of Defence.
With regard to his promotion to the post of Senior Store Keeper, Grade I, the Departmental Promotion Committee was of the view that since under the Recruitment Rules, the respondent had companypleted 3 years of regular service as Senior Store Keeper only on 23rd August, 1983, the respondent companyld number be companysidered for that post as that post had, in the meantime, been taken out of the purview of the Departmental Promotion Committee and the Recruitment and Promotion Rules with regard to that post had ceased to exist with effect from 7th November, 1981.
The respondent raised a claim that he should have been promoted as Senior Store Keeper on 31st January, 1978 instead of 22nd February, 1980 and should have been further promoted to the post of Senior Store Keeper, Grade I, on 31st August, 1982 along with his next senior A.K. Anujan.
