Ultimately by an order of the Commissioner and Secretary to the Government in the Forest Department dated 30th January, 1996, it was decided that the period the appellants served as clerks under the scheme also would be taken into companysideration for the purpose of their seniority in the cadre of clerk in the Forest Department.
This decision was assailed by the private respondents by filing the writ petition and the High Court by the impugned judgment has held that these two appellants must be held to be junior to all those private respondents, inasmuch as the private respondents were borne in the cadre of clerk in the Forest Department w.e.f.
Necessarily, therefore, they would be junior to all those who had been pointed out as clerks in the Forest Department including the private respondents, The question of inter se seniority and the date with effect from which they would actually be absorbed was receiving the attention of the State Government.
On abolition of the scheme, the two appellants came to be absorbed as clerks in the State cadre by an order dated 12.4.1985.
1 was appointed as a clerk in the scheme on 22.8.1979 and appellant No.
The private respondents were appointed as clerks in the Forest Department w.e.f.
2 was appointed as a clerk in the said scheme on 27.9.1981.
1.1.1980.
1.1.1980.
As it appears, the appellant No.
