JUDGMENT :

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying to issue a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records of the second respondent in connection with the impugned order passed by him in Na.Ka.No.125104/GB.II(2)/2013 dated 21.08.2013 and quash the same and direct the respondents to consider the claim of the petitioner notionally for promotion as Deputy Superintendent of Police, Category I for the panel year 2010-22 and grant him all consequential service and monetary benefits.)

The order of rejection rejecting the claim of the writ petitioner for notional promotion on par with his junior, to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police is under challenge in the present writ petition.

2. The petitioner was directly recruited as Sub-Inspector of Police and was appointed on 27.09.1987. He was promoted to the post of Inspector of Police in the year 1999. The petitioner states that he is a meritorious Police Personnel and on account of an undue delay on the part of the respondents in preparation of panel for promotion to the post of Deputy Superintendent of Police, he lost his opportunity for promotion and attained the age of superannu