The Original Application in O.A.No.1889 of 2001 before the Tamil Nadu Administrative Tribunal is the present writ petition.

.2. Heard Mr.Ravi Shanmugam, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs.C.K.Vishnu

.Priya, learned Additional Government Pleader for the respondents.

3. Recruitment to the post of Grade – II Police Constables took place in various years. In this case, I am concerned with the recruitment to the post of Grade – II Police Constables that took place in the year 1984. The recruitment of Grade – II Police Constables was made in one stroke in 1984, but they were made as two different batches for sending them to training. One batch, consisting of 940 personnel were sent to training on 01.08.1984. Since the required police recruitment school was not available, another batch was sent on 210. 1984. Both the persons were upgraded as Grade – I Police Constables with effect from 22.07.1997 and thereafter, they were further upgraded as Head Constables from 22.07.2002. However, the persons who were sent for training on 31.08.1984 were notionally upgraded from 25.07.1995 instead of from 22.07.1997 as Grade – I Police Constables and they were given the benefit of