ORDER :

Deepak Kumar Tiwari, J.

The aforesaid writ petitions are being disposed of by this common order, as the genesis involved in all the writ petitions is one and the same.

2. WP(S) No.4190/2016 has been filed by the petitioners (Vidya Bhushan & Others) seeking quashment of the notification dated 21.6.2016 whereby the State Government has amended the Chhattisgarh Secretariat Service Recruitment Rules, 2012 (Henceforth ‘the Rules’) and added a new Clause-(6) in Rule 13 of the said Rules, whereby relaxation of minimum length of service has been prescribed in promotion from AG-II to AG-I, only for the calendar year 2016.

3. WP(S) No.887/2012 (Vidya Bhushan & Others) and WP(S) No.2711/2016 (Gautam Kumar Bansod & Others) have been preferred seeking quashment of the gradation list with effect from 1.4.2011 and also seeking direction to consider their cases and grant seniority from the date of their joining,

4. The Department of General Administration had issued an advertisement for the posts of AG-III on 24.8.2005. Total number of posts for AG-III was 100. The petitioners had applied for the said post and appeared in the examination conducted by the Chhattisgarh Madhyamik Shiksha Mandal an