Judgment

K. RAMASWAMY

(1) LEAVE granted.

(2) THIS bunch of 22 appeals and one writ petition raise the traditional tangle of inter se seniority between the Indian Police Service Direct 9 Recruits and U.P. State Police Service, Special Grade Deputy Superintendents of Police for short Promotees. It is not necessary to detail myriad facts in all the appeals but shortly stated the facts in Civil Appeal No. 823 of 1989 are sufficient to decide the controversy by a common judgment. The appellants were direct recruits of the years 1970 and 1973 into Indian Police Service and were allotted to U.P. cadre. Respondents 3 to 9, Triveni Kumar Joshi and others were appointed as Deputy Superintendents of Police between 12/07/1961 to Jul 7/07/1963 a in substantive capacity in State Service and were promoted between October 4, 197 3/06/1975 to perform the duties of the cadre posts of Superintendents of Police. They continued to occupy the said posts till they were included in the select-list (respondent 3 in 1977, respondents 4 to 9 in 1978 and were later appointed and confirmed in the Indian Police Service w.e.f. various date between 29/07/197 8/12/1980.

(3) WHEN