Challenging the impugned order passed by the learned Single Judge in W.P(MD)No.26825 of 2023, dated 24.01.2025, whereby the show cause notice dated 15.09.2023 was set aside, the State has preferred the present Writ Appeal.

2.The respondent/writ petitioner was originally appointed as a Record Clerk and was subsequently promoted as a Lab Assistant. Thereafter, he was appointed as a Junior Assistant by way of recruitment by transfer. It is an admitted position that the post of Lab Assistant does not carry any promotional avenue and that the post carries the same scale of pay as that of Junior Assistant.

3.By the show cause notice dated 15.09.2023, the fourth appellant proposed to cancel the appointment of the writ petitioner as Junior Assistant and to revert him to the post of Lab Assistant. The said action was sought to be taken by invoking Rule 3(g) of the Tamil Nadu Ministerial Service Rules . Challenging the same, the writ petitioner filed the Writ P