ORDER

Challenge is made to the orders dated 11/14.08.2016, 14.10.2016 and 26.08.2017 whereby the respondent No.2 has been promoted on the post of Assistant Registrar in the pay scale of Rs.15600-39100 + Grade Pay Rs.5400/- ignoring the merit qualification and seniority of the petitioner over and above the respondent No.2. The petitioner has further challenged the promotion of the respondent No.2 on the ground that respondent No.2 is not having a minimum qualification as required for appointment for the post of feeder cadre and the petitioner was senior from the very inception, thus he could not have been superseded.

2. It is the case of the petitioner that he was initially appointed as a Stenographer w.e.f. 25.03.1985 in District Court, Chhindwara and he was appointed in the High Court of Madhya Pradesh vide order dated 06.01.1988 on the post of Personal Assistant. In pursuance to the same he joined on 19.01.1988. He was promoted to the post of Private Secretary on 06.05.1996. The respondent No.2 was initially appointed w.e.f. 10.11.1986. He was holding the qualification of Higher Secondary School Certificate and was placed below the petitioner in the gradation list of