Judgement

SUBBA RAO, CJI. : this petition under Art.32 of the Constitution of India has been filed by two teachers for the issue of an appropriate writ to quash the orders of promotion of respondents 3 to 83 and to direct the State of Jammu and Kashmir, the 1st respondent, and the Director of Education, Jammu and Kashmir State, Srinagar, the 2nd respondent, to promote them to the cadre of gazetted teachers with retrospective effect.

2. The facts are simple. The 1st petitioner entered Government service of the erstwhile State of Jammu and Kashmir on May 16, 1943, as a teacher in the Government School, Trehgam. He is an M.A.B.,T., and is at present working as a teacher in the Government Higher Secondary School, Sopore. The 2nd petitioner was likewise appointed as a teacher on February 26, 1952, in the Government Middle School, Nigam, Kashmir. He is a B.A.B.T., and is at present working as a teacher in the Government High School Batamallo. In the year 1957, the 1st respondent prepared a seniority list of teachers of grade Rs. 80-8-200. From time to time the 1st respondent prepared the seniority lists of teachers of the said grade and the last of them was prepared in 1961. Therein the 1s