A. V. SRINIVASA REDDY, J.

( 1 ) THE petitioner has filed this writ petition praying for issuing of a writ in the nature of mandamus directing the respondents to forthwith open the sealed cover and issue consequential order of promotion to the petitioner in Senior Management Scale IV in the service of first respondent Bank. In the course of arguments in order to highlight certain aspects of his case Sri Ramadass, learned Counsel for the respondent, submitted to the Court a bunch of papers relating to the case on hand, a copy of which has not been furnished to the petitioner as they are confidential documents. Some of the facts narrated hereunder are obtained from those documents and, therefore, they do not bear reference to the petition averments or the Annexures produced along with the writ petition. The learned Counsel for the petitioner also had not objected to the Court looking into those documents and relying on their contents, if need be.

( 2 ) THE facts leading to this writ petition, briefly stated, are as under: (i) The petitioner is a Scale III Officer. When he was working as branch Manager at Gandhi Bazaar branch of the Bank in Bangalore, he was served with a letter as per

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