S.N.Jha, J.

1. The dispute in these four writ petitions on behalf of sole petitioner each relates to appointment/promotion on the post of Assistant Conservator of Forests in the Bihar Forest Service. The dispute being common they have been heard together and disposed of by this common judgment.

2. The petitioners are aggrieved by the notification dated 19.12.98 by which the earlier notification promoting them to the post of Assistant Conservator of Forests has been cancelled and they have been reverted to the post of Range Officer of Forests. They also seek a consequential direction upon the respondents to consider their case for promotion to the post of Assistant Conservator of Forests. In CWJC No. 4072/99 the petitioner further seeks direction to amend the relevant provisions of the Bihar Forest Service Rules, 1953 (for short, "the Rules").

3. The representative facts may be noticed from CWJC No. 81/99 as follows. The petitioner was selected for the post of flange Officer of Forests by the Bihar Public Service Commission and appointed to the post on 26.3.84. He was sent for one years Rangers training at the Central Forest Rangers College, Chandrapura, State of Maharashtra