DELHI HIGH COURT
PRADEEP NANDRAJOG, VEENA BIRBAL
Surinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent
Pradeep Nandrajog, J.
1. O.A. No. 1257/1998 filed by the writ petitioner has been dismissed by the Central Administrative Tribunal as per the impugned order dated March 09, 2001.
2. The Recruitment Rule for the post of Chief Enforcement Officer has a feeder cadre consisting of: (i) Enforcement Officer; (ii) Office Superintendent.
3. The Recruitment Rule does not provide for any quota; and this would mean that an integrated/combined seniority list of Enforcement Officers and Office Superintendents is prepared by the Department from which eligible candidates are considered for promotion.
4. In the Original Application, vide para 4(c), after pleading that the post of Chief Enforcement Officer is a promotion post and two posts constituting the feeder cadre as afore-noted, it is pleaded that Rule in question, being silent as regards the ratio in which Enforcement Officers and Office Superintendents would be promoted is unconstitutional inasmuch as it leaves an unguided discretion in the hands of the respondent to consider which candidates to be considered for promotion and which candidates to be overlooked for promotion.
5. At the same time in paragraph 4(f) of the Or
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