ORDER :

RAJBIR SEHRAWAT, J.

1. The present petition has been filed seeking quashing of order dated 21.05.2020 (Annexure P-3) to the extent it has placed the petitioners at lower slot in the seniority list than the respondents No.3 to 19 (private respondents), in violation of the earlier order dated 02.12.2019 (Annexure P-2) passed by this Court in CWP No.1361 of 2017, with a further prayer that the petitioners be allotted seniority over and above the above said private respondents.

2. The facts in brief; as can be delineated from the writ petition; are that the petitioners were in service in the respondent- Department. The petitioners were promoted up to the post of Assistant Food Supplies Officers. Later on vide order dated 31.12.2012 the petitioners were promoted as Food and Supplies Officers against the promotion quota posts, along with other eligible persons, who were promoted separately vide order dated 09.11.2012. Thereafter, the respondents No.3 to 19 were appointed on the posts of Food and Supplies Officers by way of direct recruitment; in February, 2014. So the petitioners had already been working on the post of Food and Supplied Officers for the past about two years, when th