JUDGMENT - H.W. DHABE, J.:---The petitioners in this writ petition claim assignment of proper seniority in the post of Chargeman Grade II and consequent deemed dates of promotions and seniority in the higher posts of the Chargeman Grade I, the Assistant Shift Engineer and the Assistant Superintendent on the dates when the respondents 2 to 5 who, according to them, were junior to them in the post of the Chargeman Grade II were promoted to the said higher posts.

2. Briefly, the facts are that the petitioners, while working as sub Engineers in the Nagpur Urban Circle of the respondent No. 1 Electricity Board, were appointed as Chargeman Grade-II on purely temporary basis for a period not exceeding three months with effect from 1-1-1976 so far as the petitioners 1,2,4 and 6 are concerned, with effect from 22-1-1976 in the case of the petitioner No. 3, with effect from 10-2-1976, in the case of petitioner No. 5 with effect from 17-1-1976, in the case of the petitioner No. 7 and with effect from 10-1-1976 in the case of the petitioner No. 8 as is clear from the dates shown in their orders of appointment dated 14-1-1976, 23-1-1976 and 13-2-1976 (see Annexures 1 to 3 to the submissions of

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