JUDGMENT :

Ujjal Bhuyan, J.

Heard Mr. R. Sankaranarayanan, learned Additional Solicitor General of India (Southern Zone) and Mr. Gadi Praveen Kumar, learned Deputy Solicitor General of India for the appellants; and Mr. B. Adinarayana Rao, learned Senior Counsel for Mr. T. Srinivas, learned counsel representing the respondent.

2. This intra-court appeal under clause 15 of the Letters Patent has been preferred by Union of India and others against the judgment and order dated 14.06.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge allowing writ petition No.16914 of 2019 filed by the respondent as the writ petitioner.

2.1. Core issue raised in the writ petition and carried forward in the present appeal relates to claim of the respondent for promotion from the post of Brigadier to the post of Major General in the Directorate General of Quality Assurance.

3. Respondent had filed the related writ petition seeking a direction to the appellants who were respondents in the writ petition to conduct review Quality Assurance Selection Board for considering the candidature of the respondent for promotion t