Valmiki J. Mehta, J.

1. By this writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India, the petitioner, a retired employee of the respondent no.2/Canara Bank, seeks the relief of quashing of the reply dated 23.5.2016 issued by the respondent no.2/employer whereby petitioner has been denied the benefit of promotion.

2. A reading of the writ petition shows that petitioner in effect challenges the seniority list which was circulated by the respondent no.2 around 22 years back on 16.4.1994. This seniority list dated 16.4.1994 shows that petitioner was not given the promotion for the year 1990-91. Petitioner had filed a statutory appeal dated 18.5.1994 to the appellate authority for his being favorably considered for promotion for the year 1990-91. The statutory appeal was however dismissed in terms of the letter dated 24.3.1995 of the respondent no.2. Petitioner thereafter engaged in a series of correspondence with the respondent no.2, but the petitioner did not get his promotion w.e.f the year 1990-91 even till his retirement on 31.3.2008. Petitioner had applied for information under the Right to Information Act, 2005, as to details of 1994-95 decision denying him promot