fJUDGMENT

DESAI, J. :—Failure to adjust the antena to the operative channel and dipping the head like the proverbial ostrich in the sand so as not to view the changing kaleidoscope of the law can alone be said to be responsible for this trivial matter to be brought to this Court.

2. Respondents the Project and Equipment Corporation of India Ltd. (Corporation for short) since its formation in 1971 a wholly owned subsidiary company of State Trading Corporation (STC for short), a Government of India Undertaking up to 1976 when it was separated and since then it functions as a Government of India undertaking. The appellant A. L. Kalra joined as Upper Division Clerk in the STC on August 6, 1963. On November 1, 1969, he came to be promoted as Assistant and earned a further promotion on May 22, 1974 as Accountant. On the setting up of the Corporation, the appellant exercising his option came to be transferred as Accountant to the Corporation on November 9, 1976. Under the relevant conditions at transfer, he continued to be governed in the matter of recruitment and promotion by the relevent rules of the STC. He was promoted in an officiating capacity as Deputy Finance Manager Grade II on Ju