- (1.) Permission to file appeal is granted.
(2.) After hearing learned counsel for the parties, this Court had passed detailed Order dated 04.01.2019 and directed the appellants to consider the candidature of the respondent herein for the post of Lieutenant General by the review Special Selection Board ("SSB") on the basis of promotion policy that was in existence in October, 2017.
(3.) Mr. Aman Lekhi, learned Additional Solicitor General, submits that pursuant to the aforesaid direction, SSB had met on 19.01.2019. He has produced the outcome of the proceedings conducted by the said SSB in a sealed cover. We have opened the sealed cover and perused the Minutes of the SSB. As per these Minutes, the SSB has not recommended the respondent herein as well as one more Officer, whose case was also considered for promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General on the ground that they do not exceed the benchmark of 1983 and 1982 Batch of General Cadre respectively.;