( 1 ) ADMUINISTRATIVE Member-The applicant, who is posted as Reference Librarian, Research and Reference Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, New Delhi, has, in this application under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, assailed the order dated 9-1-1990 by which respondent No. 3, a Documentation Officer in the same organisation, has been appointed as Chief Documentation Officer in the same Division in an officiating capacity until further orders and on probation for a period of two years. The applicant has prayed that the aforesaid order as well as the D. PC. proceedings be quathed and the respondenti be directed to promote him to the post of Chief Documentation Officer from the date from which respondent No. 3 had been promoted with all congequential benefits.

( 2 ) THE applicant was appointed ai a Reference Librarian (Class II Gazetted) as a direct recruit through the U. P. S. C. on a regular basis on 8-6-1981, even though he had been selected for the game onl2-l-1981. He could not join earlier as he wag not received by hit previous employer i. e. , Department of Statistics, Ministry of Planning. The applicant s case, in brief, is that h