Section 95(95) in The Railway Protection Force Rules, 1987
95.1In a particular rank-(i)a superior officer appointed in a substantive capacity shall be senior to aofficer appointed in an officiating capacity;(ii)Seniority of superior officers appointed to any post in a substantivecapacity shall be determined in accordance with the date of appointment tothat post in a substantive capacity and where two or more officers areappointed to a post in a substantive capacity on the same date, theirseniority shall be determined in accordance with their order of selectionfor appointment to that post.(iii)Seniority of offices appointed to any post in an officiating capacity shallbe determined in accordance with the order of selection for appointmentto that post;(iv)Officers appointed on promotion as Assistant Commandant against thequota of vacancies reserved for them shall be placed below or above aparticular batch or direct recruits accordingly as their dates for incrementsin time scale are earlier or later than the earliest date on which any one of the direct recruits in a particular batch joined service.
