All these writ petitions have been filed by the petitioner who is now working as Deputy General Manager in the State Bank of India, hereinafter called "the Bank" and the crux of the issue raised in all these writ petitions is non-promotion of the petitioner.

2. In W.P.No.8732 of 2000, he has prayed for the issue of a writ of mandamus to promote him as Deputy General Manager with retrospective effect from the year 1988-89 on par with A.K.Purwar (the fourth respondent) and all further promotion thereon with consequential benefits.

3. In W.P.No.8733 of 2000 he has prayed for the issue of a writ of declaration declaring the promotion policy of S.B.I. for the purpose of promotion to TEG Scale VI, namely from Deputy General Manager and above, as illegal and void more particularly Clause IV(C) of the said policy as violative of Articles 14 and 16 of the Constitution of India.

4. In W.P.Nos.8642 of 2002, he has sought for the issue of a writ of mandamus to ensure that ACR/Annual Appraisal of the petitioner for the year 2001-2002 is not written by Mr.S.C.Das, General Manager (fourth respondent) or any other officer attached to the Local Head Office at Chennai or be reviewed by R.C.