ORDER :

1. The prayer sought for herein is for a issuance of writ of certiorarified mandamus, calling for the records connected to the proceedings of the respondent in Letter No.24025/A2/SC/HO/2003, dated 14.05.2003 and quash the same and further direct the respondent to revise the seniority of the petitioner in the post of Junior Assistant, Assistant and Superintendent and consequently promote the petitioner to the post of Administrative Officer from the date on which his juniors were promoted as Administrative Officers duly permitting the petitioner to draw arrears of pay and allowances and all terminal benefits.

2. The respondent TWAD Board was constituted from 14.04.1971 and accordingly, various employees, who had been in the erstwhile PWD Department, had been brought to the TWAD Board, i.e., Tamil Nadu Water supply and Drainage Board. Accordingly, the petitioner as Junior Assistant had been appointed or brought to the TWAD Board with effect from 17.07.1971. Though the petitioner initially was appointed as such in PWD on 20.09.1967 and had been working there, but he was brought to the TWAD Board only w.e.f., 17.07.1971, therefore his probation was treated from that date and he co