JUDGMENT

(Prayer: Writ Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records relating to the impugned order of the first respondent issued in letter Roc.No.33041/2012/C1-1, dated 23.07.2014 and quash the same and consequently direct the first respondent to fix the pay of the petitioner on par with his Juniors in the category of Selection Grade with effect from 09.11.2009 and to revise the pensionary benefits from 30.06.2010.)

The order of rejection rejecting the claim of the petitioner for notional promotion on par with his juniors on the fixation of pay is under challenge in the present Writ Petition.

2. The petitioner states that he was appointed as Lower Division Clerk in the year 1971 in the Tamil Nadu Municipal Service and promoted as Assistant in the year 1986. Subsequently, he was promoted as Superintendent in the year 1996 and Manager during the year 2004. The petitioner was appointed by transfer of service as Municipal Commissioner Grade II in the year 2007 and the next avenue for promotion was to the post of Municipal Commissioner Grade-I, which was given to the writ petitioner on 19.03.2008. H