V. BHASKARA RAO, J.

( 1 ) THIS Writ Petition is filed by the petitioners, who are working as Senior Purchase Officers in the 1st respondent s office at Hyderabad. The petitioners are Non-Engineering Graduates. They were originally appointed in the Purchase Department and promoted from time to time. The next promotion post to the petitioners is the Purchase Manager. The 1st respondent-Corporation has got a promotional policy. In case of Engineering Graduates the requirement to get promotion is five years service as Senior Purchase Officer, whereas for the non-engineering graduate Senior Purchase Officers the requirement is five years service plus Post Graduation Degree. Apart from the petitioners, who are non-engineering graduates, there are also Engineering Graduates, working in the Purchase Department. They were recruited directly to the post of the Purchase Officer (Trainees ). The functions performed in the Purchaser Department by the Petitioners as well as the Engineering Graduates are one and the same. As such, there cannot be, according to the learned counsel, any differentiation between the same category of employees in the matter of promotion. Earlier also the 1st responde

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