JUDGMENT :

RAJESH SINGH CHAUHAN, J.

1. Heard Sri Ashutosh Srivastava, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Sudhir Kumar Singh, learned Standing Counsel for the State.

2. At the very outset, learned counsel for the petitioner has requested that he may be permitted to delete the name of opposite party No. 5 from the array of opposite parties.

3. Considering the aforesaid request, learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to delete the name of opposite party No. 5 from array of the opposite parties, during the course of day.

4. By means of this writ petition, the petitioner has prayed for the following reliefs:

“(i) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of certiorari quashing the impugned order dated 01.12.2023 by which the right to claim of the petitioner for the promotion on the post of Administrative Officer has arbitrarily rejected by the opposite parties, contained as Annexure No. 1 to this writ petition.

(ii) to issue a writ, order or direction in the nature of mandamus commanding the opposite parties to promote the petitioner on the post of Administrative Officer from the date which the junior to the petitioner has been promoted on the said post.”

5. Though, for