JUDGMENT :

Mansoor Ahmad Mir, J.

Similar questions of facts and law are involved in both these writ petitions thus; we deem it proper to determine both these writ petitions by this common judgment.

2. It is apt to reproduce reliefs as sought for in both the writ petitions, as under:-

CWP No.9266/2014.

“(i) Quashing annexure P-5 (colly) dated 21.10.2014 to the extent it promotes respondents No. 3-5, who are juniors to the petitioners as JBT teachers to the post of Trained Graduate Teachers (TGT) without promoting the petitioners as TGTs.

(ii) For directing the respondents to promote the petitioners as Trained Graduate Teachers (TGTs) w.e.f. 21.10.2014 i.e., the date their juniors (respondents 3-5) were promoted as TGTs alongwith all consequential benefits of seniority and financial benefits.

(iii) For directing the respondents not to treat the date of joining of the JBT teachers as the basis for consideration for making their promotion to TGT amongst petitioners and private respondents (i.e. those appointed vide same appointment order) in the facts and circumstances of the case and in view of submissions made in the writ petition. Respondents may kindly be directed to treat the order of me