JUDGMENT :

Satyen Vaidya, J.

By way of instant petition, petitioners have prayed for following substantive reliefs:-

i) That the respondent-Board may be directed to issue the final seniority list of Assistant Engineers (Electrical), forthwith.

ii) That the respondent-Board may be directed to give the seniority to the applicants as Assistant Engineers (Electrical) since 27.04.1992/May 1992, vide A-3 which was followed without break, continuously and uninterruptedly till regularization on 31.12.1997, vide A-4 for all intends and purposes, forthwith.

iii) That the action of the respondent-Board in not holding the DPC for regular promotions since April, 1992 till December, 1997, only to deny the regular promotion and seniority w.e.f. date of initial appointment/promotion on 27.04.1992 vide A-3/May 1992, may be declared illegal and unconstitutional forthwith.

iv) That in the alternative, the respondent-Board may be directed to hold review DPC or to give promotion as Assistant Engineers (Electrical) as per the R&P Rules being a ‘selection post’ by applying the criteria as in the OM, dated ¾.11.1981 vide A-8 and by giving due weightage to the factum of performing arduous and higher nature of du