ORDER :

Petitioner in Writ Petition No.711 of 2014 calls in question the endorsement dated 24-01-2013 declining to consider the case of the petitioner for promotion to the cadre of Assistant Executive Engineer from the date on which his juniors were promoted.

In Writ Petition No.10007 of 2020 the very petitioner calls in question an order of penalty imposed upon him on 18-07-2003 and seeks promotion to be granted with retrospective effect and for consequential benefits thereon.

2. Brief facts leading to filing of the present petitions, as borne out from the pleadings in both the writ petitions, are as follows:-

The petitioner was appointed as a Junior Engineer in the erstwhile Karnataka Electricity Board (‘KEB’ for short) on 12-10-1988. On acquisition of graduation, he was transposed as Assistant Engineer on 26-09-1990. When the petitioner was working in the cadre of Assistant Engineer, owing to certain omissions and commissions, a charge sheet was issued against him on 17-07-2002 and a departmental inquiry thereon was conducted, which ended in imposition of penalty of ‘censure’ by an order passed by the Disciplinary Authority on 18-07-2003. After imposition of penalty of censure, the