JUDGMENT :

G.K. MITTER, J.

1. This appeal by certificate granted by the High Court of Mysore arises out of a Writ Petition No. 216 of 1967 filed in that Court by one Y. Krishna Reddy against the Chief Secretary to the Government of Mysore and 58 other persons praying for the issue of a writ of mandamus or order of a like nature directing the first respondent i.e. the said Secretary, to consider the case of the petitioner for promotion with effect from December 17, 1966 to the post of Senior Assistant on which date respondents 2 to 59 who were junior to the petitioner were promoted either in addition to or in supersession of the promotion of respondents 2 to 59 with a further direction to give all consequential benefits.

2. The petition mentioned above and a number of other petitions filed by Assistant in the Mysore Government Secretariat with the common complaint that they had not been promoted as Senior Assistants when a number of Assistants Junior to them and impleaded as respondents were so promoted by the official memorandum dated December 17, 1966 were disposed of by a common judgment of the High Court. The ground on which these petitions were said not to have been considered for