( 1 ) LEAVE granted.

( 2 ) THE appellants are all employees of the Delhi Electric Supply undertaking and the question which arises for consideration relates to the appointment to the post of Assistant Accountant under Respondent 1.

( 3 ) BRIEFLY stated the facts are that there were statutory rules which were framed in 1978 inter alia dealing with the question of promotion to the various posts in the respondent-organisation. For the post of Assistant accountant there were two feeder posts, one was that of Senior Clerks with three years experience and the other was of the Junior Clerks with eight years experience.

( 4 ) IT appears that no examination was held for filling up the post of assistant Accountant for a number of years. Some ad hoc arrangement was made and the appellants in Civils @ Special Leave Petitions (C) nos. 13322-13323 of 1997 and others, who had been working as Senior clerks, had been upgraded in the post on 4/1/1990. This was pursuant to a resolution passed by the Corporation. The resolution, however, clearly stated that these employees will be working as Assistant Accountants and will be holding only current duties without any extra remuneration and that the arran