Mgn IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION WRIT PETITON NO.6956 OF 2009 Shri R.V. Mahajan ...Petitioner Vs. The State of Maharashtra & Ors..Respondents Ms. Leena Patil, for the petitioner. Mr. V.S. Masurkar, Government Pleader for respondent Nos. 1 and 2. Ms. Neeta P. Karnik, for respondent No.3. CORAM : F.I. REBELLO & K.K.TATED, JJ. DATED : 6TH NOVEMBER, 2009 P.C. By the present petition the petitioner seeks a deemed date of promotion in the post of Deputy Engineer. It is the case of the petitioner that certain other Engineers were promoted on 1st April, 2001. The petitioner has filed an objection to challenge the seniority in the seniority list of Junior Engineers. The petitioner’s objection was allowed and by order dated 9th September, 2005 the petitioner’s seniority was refixed at Serial No.23A of the Seniority list of the junior Engineers. The petitioner thereafter was promoted on 26th March, 2006 as Deputy Engineer. This petition has been filed on 28th August, 2009. The effect of granting a deemed date to the petitioner would be to treat the persons earlier appointed as junior to the petitioner herein. Those parties are neither party to the petition nor they were parties to the earlier petition where the petitioner’s seniority was refixed. Even otherwise the case is belated and hit by latches. In our opinion, therefore, no case for interference. Petition rejected. (K.K. TATED, J.) (F.I. REBELLO,J.)