O R D E R

Justice Permod Kohli, Chairman :

In this OA filed under Section 19 of the Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, the applicants have prayed for following reliefs:

“(a) Hold and declare the practice being adopted by the Respondents No.1 and 2 in not maintaining the prescribed roster for promotional post and further giving the seniority to the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes candidates even in the promotional post, ignoring the law declared by the Apex Court and further giving the Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribes candidates en bloc promotion in the promotional post contrary to the law and ignoring the claim of the General candidates like applicants as illegal and unconstitutional.

(b) Hold and declare the impugned promotion order to the post of JDD/Exe. vide number 16/C- III/2015 (03)-18550-629 dated 30.06.2015 (Annexure-A Impugned) to the extent the respondents no.1 and 2 has given the promotion from the post of Assistant Director/Exe. to the post of JDD/Exe. to the SC/ST candidates including the respondent No.3 to respondent no.13, ignoring the original seniority of the applicants in the cadre of ACIO-II under the respondent No.2 as arbitrary and illegal and consequently quash