JUDGMENT :

Ajay Mohan Goel, J.

By way of this petition, the petitioner has, inter alia, prayed for the following relief:-

“That the respondents may be directed to consider the name of the petitioner for promotion as Senior Assistant from the due date i.e. 2012 after receiving the DPC on 10.07.2012 and 05.06.2014, also placing the name of the petitioner in accordance with the corrected seniority list. Further the respondent may be directed to provide the petitioner all consequential benefits after granting his promotion w.e.f. 2012.”

2. The case of the petitioner is that he was appointed as a Clerk on compassionate basis in the year 1985. He was initially posted at D.C. Office Chamba, District Chamba, H.P., but on account of his family circumstances, he got himself transferred from District Chamba to District Kangra and was posted as a Clerk/Junior Assistant in the Office Deputy Commissioner, Kangra at Dharamshala, H.P. w.e.f. 31.01.1990. On account of this voluntarily transfer sought by the petitioner, he lost his seniority of District Chamba. In terms of his seniority as determined from the date when he joined in District Kangra, he was assigned seniority at serial No.60 in terms of