Govinda Bhat, J.—In this writ petition preferred under Art. 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner has challenged the transfer to, and absorption in, of respondents 2 to 12 in the cadre of Assistants in the Mysore Government Secretariat Services, and giving them seniority and promotion over the petitioner. The facts so far as they are material may be briefly stated:

The petitioner who had entered service as an Assistant in the Bombay Secretariat Service on 17-10-1955, was allotted to the New State of Mysore consequent on the Reorganization of States and since then he has been serving in the Mysore Government Secretariat. Respondents 2 to 10 with exception of respondents 8 and 9 were serving in the Translation Department of the erstwhile State of Mysore, and respondents 8 and 9 are allottees from the erstwhile States of Hyderabad and Madras respectively, to the new State of Mysore under Section 115 of the States Reorganization Act, 1956, hereinafter called the Act. Respondent 1, the State of Mysore, prepared and published on 18th November 1957, under the directions of the Central Government, a Provisional Inter-State Seniority List of First Division Clerks in the My