1. By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner impugns the order/letter dated 29.9.2007 issued by respondent no. 2/Director of Education (DOE) thereby rendering the petitioner as surplus with the respondent no. 1/Rattan Devi Arya Girls Senior Secondary School and for the petitioner to join Nehru Adarsh SSS, Old Seelam Pur, Delhi. Incidental reliefs are also prayed and all of which in fact pertain to what is the position of seniority of the petitioner as a Trained Graduate Teacher (TGT) in terms of the Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) held by the respondent no.1/school on 22.3.2005. The issue is that if petitioner is found to be junior to the respondent no.3/Neerja Tyagi, then, it is the petitioner who will have been rightly declared as surplus.

2. Since for the determination of the issue involved in this writ petition the DPC meeting held on 22.3.2005, Rule 109 of the Delhi School Education Rules, 1973 and Rule 6 of the Delhi Administration and Seniority Rules, 1965 would be relevant, the same are reproduced as un