JUDGMENT :

1. The present Writ Appeal has been filed questioning the impugned order passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P. No. 24964 of 2021, dated 09.12.2021.

2. The sum and substance of the issue on hand is as to whether the first respondent/writ petitioner was eligible to be considered for inclusion in the panel. The crucial date for promotion was on 15.03.2019. The first respondent/writ petitioner is now facing charge memo, dated 23.05.2016 under the Tamil Nadu Civil Services (Discipline and Appeal) Rules, on the ground that there was a demand of bribe. After detailed enquiry, the punishment of stoppage of increment for a period of six months, was imposed. Even though the first respondent/petitioner has contended that there was a second enquiry, which ought not to have been initiated, the factum that the money was demanded as a part of the Flag Day collection, was not appreciated, but the punishment imposed, namely stoppage of increment for a period of six months without cumulative effect, by proceedings dated 25.04.2018, which was affirmed by the appellate authority, was confirmed.

3. Though the Writ Petition was filed before this Court, in the meantime, the panel was drawn b