(1) THIS order will dispose of a preliminary objection raised on behalf of the respondents that these writ petitions should be dismissed because the petitioners have suppressed certain material facts from this court and have also tried to abuse the process of court in the manner hereinafter appearing.

(2) WRIT Petition No. 507 of 1989 has been filed by the All India State Bank Officers Federation (hereinafter called the Federation) through its President. It was filed in this court on 21/04/1989 and was sup- ported by an affidavit of Umed Singh, President of the Federation, affirming the contents of the petition to be true to his personal knowledge. By this writ petition the Federation seeks to impugn a new promotion policy decided upon by the State Bank of India (hereinafter called the Bank). In paragraph 9(mm) of the petition it is stated that the petitioners are approaching this court in great haste as the Bank is moving with great speed and is likely to constitute Departmental Promotion Committees and declare the results of the interviews in implementation of the new promotion policy within the next two or three days. In the affidavit of Umed Singh, referred to ea