JUDGMENT :

B.R. Sarangi, J.

The State of Odisha and its functionaries have filed this writ petition seeking to quash the order dated 21.07.2017 passed by the Odisha Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar Bench, Bhubaneswar in O.A. No. 2728 of 2013, by which the tribunal has directed them to call the applicant-opposite party for certificate/ documents verification and, if she is otherwise found eligible and suitable, to give her appointment against unfilled post in SEBC category, and that in event she is appointed, to count her appointment w.e.f. the date the other persons have been appointed, maintaining her seniority below them, and to extend her the notional financial benefits.

2. The factual matrix of the case, in brief, is that an advertisement was issued for the post of contract teacher in TGT (CBZ), pursuant to which opposite party no.1 submitted her application under SEBC (W) category. Though her position in the merit list was at sl. no. 39 and at sl. no. 1 in SEBC category, yet she was not called for the certificate verification. As such benefit was illegally denied to her, she approached the tribunal.

2.1 To the stand taken by opposite party no.1 before the tribunal, a counter a