ORDER

Per Hon’bleMr.Pankaj Kumar, Member-Administrative In this case relating to promotion from the State Forest Service (SFS) to the Indian Forest Service (IFoS), the applicant has sought the following reliefs:

“1.To quash the impugned order dated 17.02.2020, contained as Annexure No. A-1 to this OA, with all consequential benefits. To extend the benefits of being IFS UP Cadre of Select List 2017 while including his name in the list and revise all benefits including pay, pension and other settlement dues etc.

To release the arrears of pay, pension, pensionary benefits etc along with interest @ 12% per annum from the date of due till the actual date of payment.

Any other relief, which this Hon’ble Tribunal may deem fit, just and proper under the circumstances of the case, may also be passed.

Cost of the present case may also be awarded as the applicant has unnecessarily been dragged in litigation.”

2. The facts of the case are that the applicant, an officer of Uttar Pradesh Forest Service, was included at S. No. 1 in the Select List for 2017 (along with another officer, Shri Lalit Kumar Giri, who was placed at S. No. 2) prepared by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC