JUDGMENT

Omprakash Trivedi, J. - This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by Madan Mohan Saran and Sri Ram Bhargava against Hon'ble V. G. Oak, the then Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court (opposite party No. 1), Hon'ble the Chief Justice, High Court, Allahabad (opposite party No. 2), the Registrar, High Court, Allahabad (opposite party No. 3) and 17 others. The petitioners were employees of the erst-while Chief Court of Avadh and became the employees of the newly constituted High Court of Judicature at Allahabad on promulgation of the U. P. High Courts (Amalgamation) Order, 1948. A seniority list determining inter se seniority of the employees belonging to the erstwhile Chief Court of Avadh and the employees of the erstwhile Allahabad High Court was prepared and circulated in the year 1967. The petitioners felt aggrieved from this seniority list and preferred a writ petition, which was numbered as writ Petition No. 693 of 1969 at the Lucknow Bench of this Court on 12.8.1969 and it was admitted the same day. On 27.11.1970 an application was moved before Hon'ble the Chief Justice, High Court at Allahabad under clause 14 of the U. P. High Courts