JUDGMENT

JUDGMENT:— This appeal, by certificate, is directed against the order dated 30th April, 1973, of the Judicial Commissioner, Goa, Daman and Diu dismissing Special Civil Application No. 43 of 1972 by which appellant sought a mandamus directing the respondents to absorb him in a equivalent to that of Treasurer of a financial institution of the former Portuguese Government in Goa, after its take-over by the Indian Government.

2. The appellant was in the service of "Caixa Economica De Goa" as instrumentality of the then Portuguese Government. The petitioner joined the service as "Aspirante" said to correspond to the post of an Upper Division Clerk but he was acting in the higher post of Grade III Officer in the said Caixa Economica. On 30-8-1963 the post of Treasurer in the establishment of Caixa Economica having fallen vacant upon the death of the person who then held that post, appellant was asked to perform the duties of the treasurer on the stipulation that he would draw, besides the monthly salary of his own post as acting Grade III Officer which he then was, an allowance of Rs. 100/- per month. After the liberation of the territories in the Portuguese occupation, a questio