Judgment

O. CHINNAPPA REDDY, J. :- The facts, simple enough as they are, have been complicated by the voluminous record built up by the petitioner and the various interim orders passed by this Court from time to time. Shorn of all unnecessary detail, the relevant facts are these : The petitioner was originally appointed as a Draftsman Grade II in the pay-scale of Rs. 205-7-240-8-280 in the year 1964. In the year 1970 an order was made on Jan 28, 1970 by which he was purported to be reduced in rank to the post of Draftsman Grade-III in the scale of Rs. 150-5-175-6-205-E.B.- 7-240. It is this order that is challenged in the present writ petition filed in 1978. But the matter is not so simple. The very order was challenged by this petitioner in the Delhi High Court by way of a writ petition (Civil Writ Petition No. 194/70) and that writ petition was dismissed by the High Court on Aug. 16, 1974 by a learned single Judge. A Letters Patent Appeal was dismissed on Dec. 3, 1974 and the special leave petition filed against the judgment of the High Court was also dismissed by this Court. The petitioner then sought a review of the order on the special leave petition on two occasions and both t