ORDER :

The petitioner is knocking the doors of this writ Court aggrieved by the order dated 22.09.2023 passed by Karnataka State Administrative Tribunal (for short ‘Tribunal’) in A.No. 3096/2023, whereby the Tribunal has rejected the application filed by the petitioner.

2. Before we proceed with the contentions adverted by the parties to this Petition, the facts apposite for consideration of the petition as borne out from the pleadings are –

Petitioner who was initially working as an Assistant Town Planner, Office of Assistant Director, Town and Country Planning, Mysuru came to be promoted vide order dated 11.05.2016, to the post of Town Planner, Mysuru Urban Development Authority, Mysuru (for short ‘MUDA’). The petitioner has discharged his duties in the said place for nearly six years and pursuant to which, on 11.04.2022, petitioner was again promoted from the cadre of Town Planner to Assistant Director and subsequent to said promotion, he was posted as Member Secretary, Town Planning Authority, Malavalli, Mandya.

3. Further, he served in the post of Member Secretary in Mandya for a period of nearly two months and in pursuance of order dated 02.06.2022 viz, Annexure-A3, he was again