ORDER :- This writ petition, filed by eight Upper Division Assistants of the General Office of the High Court at Allahabad, is directed against an order of the Chief Justice dated 1-3-1969, by which the petitioners' objections against a draft gradation list prepared by the Additional Registrar were rejected and the seniority of Mahesh Prasad Srivastava and Sushil, Kumar (respondents 4 and 5), who were originally Translators but had been absorbed in the cadre of Upper Division Assistants in 1964 and 1967 respectively, was fixed in such a manner as to make them senior to the petitioners. The first prayer set forth in the petition asks for the quashing of certain earlier orders of the Chief Justice as well, but Mr. S.N. Kacker, who appears for the petitioners, has stated that it is not necessary to quash those earlier orders and that he confines this prayer to the quashing of the last order dated 1-3-1969. In addition, the petitioners challenge the promotion of Mahesh Prasad Srivastava to the post of Assistant Superintendent in the Administrative Department on 23-4-1969 and of Sushil Kumar as Assistant Superintendent in the Copynig Department on 25-4-1969, on the basis of their senior

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