JUDGMENT :

AJAY MOHAN GOEL, J.

1. By way of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following substantive relief:

“1. That the Office Order dated 3.5.2019, at Annexure P-4, may kindly be quashed and set aside and the petitioner may kindly be held entitled for promotion to the post of Pump Operator w.e.f. the date persons junior to him have been promoted after convening the Review DPC, with all consequential service benefits.”

2. When this case was listed before the Court on 23.02.2022, the following order was passed:

“CMP No. 15642 of 2021

For the reasons stated therein, the application is allowed and the petition is taken up for consideration, as prayed, for today itself.

CWP No. 2070 of 2020

Heard for some time. The petitioner is aggrieved by the factum of his being denied promotion to the post of Pump Operator, whereas according to him, persons junior to him from the feeder category, stood promoted against the said post prior to him. Response filed by the Department to the petition demonstrates that the petitioner was not considered by the Departmental Promotion Committee held in the year 2012 as well as in the year 2017 for want of submission of Experience Certificate by