APARESH KUMAR SINGH,J. - (1.) Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and respondents.
(2.) Respondents in O.A./051/00189/2014 are the writ petitioners herein being aggrieved by the order dated 24th August, 2016 passed by learned Central Administrative Tribunal, Circuit Bench at Ranchi, where under they have been directed to correct the seniority list and assign appropriate seniority to the applicants/respondents herein, which their counterparts would have enjoyed, had there been no mutual transfer.
(3.) Applicant No. 1/respondent No. 1 herein, Assistant Loco Pilot at Gomo Station under Eastern Central Railway had joined on 24th January, 2001 and got transferred on mutual transfer basis to Hatia Station in exchange with one Md. Suhail Ansari of South Eastern Railway, Ranchi Division, Assistant Loco Pilot working at Hatia Station; his date of appointment being 1st February, 2006. The order of mutual transfer was issued on 15th March, 2011. Applicant No. 2/respondent No. 2 herein, Assistant Loco Pilot (Electrical) at Gomo Station under Dhanbad Division appointed on 6th August, 2001 similarly got transferred to Ranch Division in exchange with one Ajay Kumar-I, Assistant Loco Pilot (Electrical), his date of appointment being 14th March, 2006. The order of mutual transfer was issued on 12th July, 2010. Applicants got aggrieved on issuance of provisional seniority list of Senior Assistant Pilot on 24th September, 2013, as they had been shown after the persons, who were appointed in 2009, though according to Indian Railway Establishment Rules, 310 they ought to have been allotted seniority of 2006 in place of the persons with whom they had exchanged their position.;