ORDER

Per : Hon’ble Shri Lok Ranjan, Member (A)

The Applicant in the present Original Application was aggrieved by his not being placed on the Select List of the Year-2014, for appointment to IAS from the Rajasthan State Civil Service (SCS) ; whereas some of his juniors had been selected by the Selection Committee (SC) under the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) in the meeting dated 13.10.2015 – and eventually appointed to IAS vide Notification dated 23.10.2015.

2. From the pleadings of the parties in this case before us, the relevant matrix of facts had emerged as follows briefly. The Applicant was a member of Rajasthan Administrative Services (RAS), 1987 batch. He was given the Selection Scale (SS) of RAS, in the year 2005-06 ; and in the Seniority List published by the Respondents, of SS of RAS officers as on 01.04.2007, his name was at Serial No.181 ; whereas that of Smt. Vinita Srivastava was at Sl.No.179, that of Leeladhar Yadav was at Sl.No.182, that of Dinesh Kumar Yadav was at Sl.No.183, that of Durga Joshi was at Sl.No.184. A Departmental Inquiry came to be initiated against the Applicant by serving upon him a chargesheet dated 06.01.2010 under Rule-16 of the Rajasthan