Judgment

VENKATARAMIAH, JJ.

( 1 ) THE State Bank of India and two of its officers have filed this appeal by special leave against the judgment of a Division Bench of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh in Writ Appeal No. 1027 of 1986 dated 25-9-1986 affirming the judgment dated 28-3-1986 of the learned single Judge in Writ Petition No. 5133 of 1984 issuing a direction to the appellants to promote the respondent, Mohd. Mynuddin to the Middle Management Grade Scale Ill.

( 2 ) THE respondent who was holding the post of the Manager, S. I. B. Division, State Bank of India, Vijayawada (Andhra Pradesh) which was a post in Middle Management Grade Scale II filed the above writ petition before the High Court in the year 1984 complaining that he has been wrongly denied promotion to the Middle Management Grade Scale III along with some others who belonged to his batch without any reasonable ground, even. though he was fully eligible for such promotion. On the above basis he prayed for the issue of a direction to the management to promote him to the higher post with effect from 1979. According to the appellants his case was not considered in the year 1979 on account, of inadequacy of material regard