Being aggrieved with the order dated 10.12.2010, of the Principal Chief Conservator of Forests (Head of Forest Force), Chennai, wherein the name of the petitioner was not selected to be included in the panel of Foresters fit for promotion as Rangers for the year 2010-11 qualified as on 15.08.2010, the petitioner has sought for a writ of Certiorarified Mandamus to quash the same and consequently prayed for a direction to the respondents to include his name in the approved list of Forest Rangers for the year 2010 with all service and monetary benefits.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that he joined as Junior Assistant on 08.11.1985 in the Forest Department and thereafter, promoted to the post of Assistant on 04.03.1992. Subsequently, he was transferred and included in the category of Forester in the year 1994 in the Forest Subordinate Service and joined duty as Forester from 01.02.1996, in which post he is still continuing. It is the further case of the petitioner that when he was working as Forester in W. Pudupatti Section in Srivilliputhur Forest Range, a charge memo was issued under Rule 17-a of the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules. Though the