- (1.) Heard Sri Rakesh Bajpai and Sri Ashok Shukla, learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned Standing Counsel.
(2.) Petitioner, who is working as Superintending Engineer in Irrigation Department, has filed instant writ petition for a mandamus to the opposite party/ concerned authority to issue promotion order w.e.f. 16.02.2017, the date on which junior to the petitioner, Sri Balram Singh Yadav was promoted, to the post of Chief Engineer-Level-II in view of the recommendation made by the Departmental Promotion Committee in its meeting dated 07.09.2016 with all consequential benefits.
(3.) Submission of learned Counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner was appointed as Assistant Engineer in Irrigation Department on 20.04.1982. In the year 2008, he was promoted to the post of Executive Engineer and later on, was promoted to the post of Superintending Engineer in the year 2014.;