D.S.Sinha, J. - (1.) The petitioners are aggrieved by the orders of the Secrrtary/ Samanya Prabandhak, Zila Sahkari Bank Budaun, reverting them to the post of clerk from the post of Junior Manager.
(2.) Initially the petitioners were appointed as clerks in the District Co-operative Bank, Budaun and continued to work as such till they were promoted as Incharge Branch Manager. Later on in pursuance of a Circular issued by the Registrar, Co-operative Societies, namely, Circular No. C-187/ST/ Notification dated 10th December, 1976 a new staffing pattern was enforced and the petitioners were placed in the payscale of Rs. 250-15-400 E. B. 20-600 with tb'e designation of Junior Branch Manager assigned to them. Thus the petitioners were adjusted to the post of Junior Branch Manager. The assertion of the petitioners, to which there is no effective denial, is that they were confirmed as Branch Manager by the resolution of (he Board of Directors dated 12th November, 1980 with effect from 1st November, 1980. Ever since the adjustment and absorption as Branch Manager the petitioners have been continuously working on the said post and by now they have put in more than a decade of service as Junior Branch Manager.
(3.) Suddenly, in March, 1987, the petitioners were ordered to be reverted to the post of clerk by means of the orders impugned in the writ petitions.;