JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, to call for the records of the second respondent in Na.Ka.No.L.L.2/25643/13, dated 23.06.2014 and to quash the same with consequential direction to promote the petitioner as Forest Watcher with effect from the date of his junior's promotion with all consequential benefits.)

1. The order impugned dated 23.06.2014, rejecting the claim of the writ petitioner for promotion to the post of Forest Watcher with effect from the date of his junior's promotion with all consequential benefits is under challenge in the present writ petition.

2. The writ petitioner was appointed as Plot Watcher on daily wages basis on 01.041982. Subsequently, his appointment was converted as Social Forestry Worker with effect from 19.11.1982 by the Forest Officer, Social Forestry Range, Kallakurichi. The petitioner was working more than 3 decades and his services are not regularised.

3. As per the Tamil Nadu Forest Subordinate Service Rules, Rule No.5, the requisite qualification for the appointment to the post of Forest Watcher is,

(1) Ability to read and write tamil

(2) 163 cm of