10. From plain perusal of counter affidavit shows that
the respondents have applied out-of-turn promotion
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and the reservation principle for assigning higher
seniority to the batch mates juniors to Shri S.S.Singh
in the rank of ACIOs-II/Exe. It is not clear whether
they have applied catch up rule to rectify the seniority
of the General Category candidates in view of
judgments in Union of India vs. Virpal Singh
Chauhan, (1995) 6 SCC 684; Ajit Singh Januja
(Ajit Singh-I) vs. State of Punjab; 1996 SCC (L&S)
540; Ajit Singh and others vs. State of Punjab and
Others (Ajit Singh -I) (1997) 7 SCC 209; S. Panneer
Selvam & Others. vs. State of Tamilnadu and
others, (2015) 10 SCC 10 SCC 292.