JUDGMENT :

Petitioner has approached this Court, seeking direction to consider his case for promotion to the post of Superintendent Grade-II after completion of six years service as a Senior Assistant on 03.09.2017, alongwith all consequential benefits, including seniority, continuity, annual increments, earned leave and all other consequential benefits including arrears accruing thereon on this account.

2. Undisputed facts in present case are that petitioner is serving as a Senior Assistant in the Municipal Corporation, Shimla (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation’). Next promotional avenue available to him is the post of Superintendent Grade-II. There are six posts of Superintendent Grade-II in the Corporation. Appointment/promotion to the post of Superintendent Grade-II is governed by 13 Point Roster. Before 2015, exercise of power by the Corporation was under cloud, but after 2015, the Corporation has been declared appointing authority for the posts, in reference, in present petition. Therefore, Corporation has started to maintain Roster (13 Point) for the post of Supe