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4. Appearing for the petitioner, Mr. Dalal strenuously argued that even when PC(SL) officers cadre is the largest cadre in terms of the number of officers who are working in the same, the Government had ignored the recommendations made for the creation of a post of Major General in the same and turned a deaf ear to the request made by the petitioner from time to time. He submitted that with 500 Gazetted army officers out of whom 492 hold the rank of Lt. Colonel and below, PC(SL) Record Officers cadre was one of the largest in the Indian Army which does not despite its size and the colossal volume of work, turns out a post of Major General at the top. In comparison cadres which have much lesser strength like the Judge Advocate General's Cadre with only 101 gazetted officers, Army Postal Service Cadre with only 150 gazetted officers out of whom only 138 were of the rank of Lt. Colonel and below and Army Provost Marshal (CMP) with a total of 179 gazetted officers out of whom only 151 are Lt. Colonels and below, had a Major General at the top of the pyramid. Similarly in the case of Corps of Military Police with less than half the strength of gazetted officers in its cadre and Remount Veterinary Corps with just about 249 officers in the rank of Lt. Colonel and below had one Major General at the top. So much so, Intelligence Corps with only 305 gazetted officers in all out of whom 262 were Lt. Colonels and below had two Major Generals as in the case of Army Dental Corps which had a total strength of 376 gazetted officers only. It was argued that the disparity in the creation and allotment of the vacancies in the Cadre of Major General was evident from a comparative study of the cadre strength of all these cadres. This, contended Mr. Dalal, signified that there was a deep rooted bias against the PC(SL) Record Officers cadre which was being given a step-motherly treatment even when the facts and figures given in the proposal for upgradation submitted by the petitioner clearly justified an immediate upgradation of the post of Brigadier to that of a Major General.