JUDGMENT

1. Dr. B.R. Sarangi, ACJ.

The petitioner, who was the applicant in O.A. No. 1552 of 1991 before the Orissa Administrative Tribunal, Bhubaneswar, has filed this writ petition challenging the order dated 04.05.2012 passed by the Tribunal in the said Original Application.

2. The fact leading to the approach this Court, in a nutshell, is that the petitioner, after passing her graduation, had registered her name with the employment exchange. An advertisement was floated by the Board of Revenue to fill up the posts of Junior Assistant. As the petitioner was fulfilling the eligibility criteria fixed in the advertisement, applied for the said recruitment and was allotted with Roll Number-1100874. Name of the petitioner was sponsored by opposite party no.3 to the Deputy Director Marketing and Ex-Officio Under Secretary to Government, Industries Department on 09.08.1991 for being appointed as a Junior Assistant, pursuant to the requisition made by opposite party No.2, and it was further pointed out that the order of appointment may be issued in favour of the petitioner as per the address given. Accordingly, on 22.08.1991, the petitioner was issued with an order of appointment as Junior