JUDGMENT :

SANGEETA CHANDRA, J.

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and. Sri. Shatrughan Chaudhary, learned Additional Chief Standing Counsel for the State-Respondents.

2. This petition has been filed by the petitioner challenging the order dated 05.05.2015 passed by respondent no. 2 and praying for issuance of mandamus to the respondents to grant notional promotion to the petitioner to the post of Additional Director w.e.f. 21.06.1990 and to the post of Director w.e.f. 22.05.1996 respectively alongwith consequential benefits including arrears of salary coupled with interest at the market rate i.e. from the respective date of such promotion, since the persons junior to the petitioner, namely, Dr. Sumati Sheel Sharma has been granted such benefit in furtherance of general directions issued by Supreme Court as well as by this Court in various other writ petitions.

3. It appears that petitioner was appointed on the post of Medical Officer-in-Charge on 21.02.1969. He appeared before U.P. Public Services Commission on 31.08.1970. Dr. Sumati Sheel Sharma was appointed to the post of Medical Officer in March, 1971 and was placed in the Seniority List at S. No. 768. Petitioner was appo