ORDER

Hon’ble Ms. Harvinder Kaur Oberoi, Member (J):

The issue involved in all the Original Applications is identical and therefore, with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, all the captioned OAs were heard together and are being disposed of by a common order. However, for the purpose of the present order, the facts are being taken from OA No. 1391/2025 (Anil Kumar) treating the same as the lead case.

2. Brief facts of the case are that both the applicants were appointed as Junior Engineer (Civil) in the years 1997 and 2000 respectively. After rendering six years of regular service as Junior Engineer (Civil), both the applicants became eligible for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) as per the Recruitment Rules circulated on 01.07.2004. Although both the applicants had completed the required years of service for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) in the years 2003 and 2010 respectively, they were not considered for promotion to the said post for want of vacancies.

3. Their claims for promotion to the post of Assistant Engineer (Civil) were eventually considered in the years 2010 and 2013 respectively. As both the applicants had outstand