JUDGMENT :

Satyen Vaidya, J.

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

(i) That impugned action of the respondents which has denied the benefit of Rule 7(n) of H.P. State Cooperative Bank Employees (Terms of Employment and Working Conditions), Rules, 1979, to the petitioners, the copy of one such impugned letter dated 02.04.2019 (Annexure P-9), may kindly be quashed and set aside and the respondents may be directed to implement the above provisions to them.

(ii) That the Respondents No. 2 & 3 may be directed to count the past service of the petitioners for the purpose of fixation of pay in new scale, towards pension/retirement benefit and the leave at credit may ordered to be carried forward as per the provision of Bank Rule 7(n) of H.P. State Cooperative Bank Employees (Terms of Employment and Working Conditions), Rules, 1979.

(iii) That the seniority of the petitioners to the post of Assistant Manager may kindly be ordered to be counted from the initial day of their joining for all intend and purposes and the contrary action by counting the seniority from the date of regularization may kindly be set aside.

(iv) That the respondents may be directed to c