THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.25620 OF 2000 Dt:25-11-2010. BETWEEN: K.VENKATESWARA PRASAD .. PETITIONER AND THE EXECUTIVE OFFICER, T.T.DEVASTHANAM, TIRUPATI AND ANOTHER .. RESPONDENTS THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.25620 OF 2000 O R D E R : This writ petition is filed seeking a writ of mandamus directing the 1st respondent to promote the petitioner as Draughtsman Grade I in preference to all his juniors who were appointed as Draughtsman Grade II after 27.9.1991 in the existing or in future vacancies and continue him in that category as Draughtsman Grade I so long as petitioner’s juniors in that category are continued as Draughtsman Grade I. According to the petitioner, he was initially appointed as a skilled labour and his services were absorbed on regular basis in the cadre of Work Inspector Grade II in the year 1991. Thereafter, he was appointed as Draughtsman Grade II on recruitment by transfer from work charged establishment as per orders issued in memo dated 27.9.1991. No seniority list was prepared by the 1st respondent in the cadre of Draughtsman Grade II. Now, it is the grievance of the petitioner that juniors to the petitioner are being promoted to Draughtsman Grade I post though the petitioner is senior to many of his juniors who were promoted as Draughtsman Grade I his case is not being considered. There is no necessity of going into all the details. The respondents have filed a detailed counter denying the allegations made by the petitioner and it is categorically stated that those five persons who were referred to in para 5 of the affidavit to say that they are juniors to the petitioner in the cadre of Draughtsman Grade II, it is stated that they are not juniors to the petitioner. In fact all the service particulars of those five persons were also furnished, which reads as under: ________________________________________________________ SL.NO. NAME OF SENIOR DATE OF JOINING AS WORK EMPLOYEE -CHARGED ESTT. ________________________________________________________ 1. Sri.C.V.Prasad 22-9-1984 (As BPO, w.e.f. 22-9-1984 on NMR basis.) 2. Sri.K.Suresh Reddy 26-11-1984 (As BPO., w.e.f. 26-11-1984 on NMR basis) 3. Sri.D.Soban Babu 1-3-1985 (As NMR Skilled Worker) 4. Sri.K.Sreenivasa Iyyar 1-9-1972 (As Work-Charged Estts.) 5. Sri.K.Rajendra Iyyar 1-9-1972 (As Work-Charged Estts.) Further, it is asserted that no junior to the petitioner in the cadre of Draughtsman II was promoted to the cadre of Draughtsman I ignoring the petitioner and there are no valid grounds in the claim. The qualifications possessed by the petitioner are a pass in SSC and Diploma in Civil Engineering. Therefore, the petitioner is not entitled for promotion to the cadre of Draughtsman Grade I as he had not passed the Accounts Test for Executive Officers and P.W.D. officers. Rule 16 of the Service Rules issued in G.O.Ms.No.1060, Revenue (Endt-I) Department, dated 24.10.1989 has no application to the case of the petitioner, when once the respondents have asserted that all those persons named by the petitioner as juniors are said to be seniors to the petitioner and as their particulars are furnished in the counter affidavit as noticed above. Under those circumstances, in the absence of any reply it must be deemed that the petitioner is junior to them and therefore he is not entitled for any relief as claimed by the petitioner. The writ petition is devoid of merits and is liable to be dismissed. Accordingly, this writ petition is dismissed. No costs. Dt:25-11-2010. ( C.V.RAMULU, J ) tnb THE HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE C.V.RAMULU WRIT PETITION NO.25620 OF 2000 DT: 25-11-2010.