Judgement

MITTER, J. :- This appeal is by a certificate granted by the Punjab High Court under Article 133 of the Constitution against its judgment and order dated January 7, l963 in Letters Patent Appeal No. 157 of 1959 reversing a decision of a single Judge of that Court who bad dismissed a writ petition filed by the respondents on June 7, 1958 to declare that the order of the first appellant reverting him to his permanent post in the Delhi Administration was invalid and to quash the same.

2. The facts laid in the writ petition are as follows. The petitioner, Sukh Raj Bahadur, respondent herein was a permanent official of the office of the Chief Commissioner, Delhi. On December 9, 1952 he was accepted as a candidate for the post of Extra Assistant Commissioner on the Register A-II of the Punjab Government along with two others. on the advice of the Punjab Public Service Commission. He was posted as Inspector. Local Bodies, Jullundur Division and Assistant to Commissioner, Jullundur Division. Later on, he acted as Personal Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner, Amritsar. On being relieved from the Delhi State Government on January 15, 1953 he assumed charge of the post of Personal As