The Court made the following Order: (Per Hon’ble Sri Justice Tuhin Kumar Gedela)

Heard,

Learned counsel for the petitioner; learned Government Pleader for General Administration, appearing for respondent No.1; learned Government Pleader for Higher Education, appearing for respondent Nos.2, 3 and 5; Smt. Sireesha Rani Vallabhaneni, learned Standing Counsel for the 4^th respondent and learned counsel for the 6^th respondent.

1. The Writ Petition is filed assailing the orders of the Andhra Pradesh Administrative Tribunal (in short “the Tribunal”) passed in O.A.No.5374 of 2004, wherein the O.A. was disposed of, declaring that the applicant therein is entitled to be considered for promotion on the basis of DSC ranking, in preference to the people who got lesser rank in DSC-2000 and the unofficial respondents were directed to prepare the seniority list on the basis of DSC-2000 ranking and if any of the juniors to the applicant are promoted earlier to him, assign notional seniority to the applicant, in the post of School Assistant with all consequential benefits, unless he is not found eligible for such promotion.

2. The narration of the parties is as in the present writ petition.

3. The contour