v.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT MADRAS

DATED : 08.11.2017 CORAM :

THE HONOURABLE Mr.JUSTICE M.SUNDAR W.P.No.5627 of 1997 S.D.Rajendran ... Petitioner Vs.

1.The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., Rep. by its Chairman cum Managing Director, Head Office, Oriental House, A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

2.The Assistant General Manager, Appointing Authority for Promotion "Oriental House"

A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

3.The Region-in-Charge, U.I.L.Building Regional Office, No.8, Esplanade, Madras-600 108.

4.Mr.D.S.Krishna Moorthy, Manager (Retd.,) U.I.L. Building, Regional Office, No.8, Esplanade, Madras-600 108.

5.Ms.D.Charumathy, Division-in-charge, D.O.VI, Bali Towers, Mount Road, Madras.

6.Mukesh Kumar Gupta (S.R.No.710016), through the Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., Head Office, A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

7.Anil Srivastava (S.R.No.252425) Divisional Office II, Lucknow.

8.R.Suhil (S.R.No.040070) Regional Office, Jaipur.

9.Rajiv Seth (S.R.No.040142) C.B.O. IV, Bhopal.

10.S.K.Samantary (S.R.No.040151) Branch Office, Bhogal, New Delhi.

11.Alok Srivastava (S.R.No.040231) Divisional Office, Lucknow.

12.S.R.Nair (S.R.No.451690) Branch Office, Ulloor (CORO), through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

13.Deepika Mehra (Kumar) Ms.

Regional Office, New Delhi.

14.Rantlal Lal Sawmliana (S.R.No.500925) Branch Office, Aizwal, through Head Office 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

15.John Winan (S.R.No.311294) Regional office, Patna.

16.V.B.Ravindhar Babu (S.R.No.040362) Branch Office, Bommasandra. (BGRO), through Head Office, 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-2.

17.P.S.Haranadh (S.R.No.407101) City Branch Office, Suryapet.

18.Subir Kanti Dey (S.R.No.313653) C.B.O. Guwahati.

19.B.N.Chopra (S.R.No.211061) Divisional Office VIII, New Delhi.

20.V.K.Mehtani (S.R.No.209007) Branch Office, N-39, New Delhi.

21.D.Thakkar (S.R.No.154792) Branch Office, Ujjain, through Head Office, 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

22.A.K.Sharma (S.R.No.154806) Divisional office II, Indore.

23.K.Govindan (S.R.No.143582) C.B.O. VI, Ahmedabad.

24.K.S.Kelkar (S.R.No.162337) Divisional office, though Head Office, 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

25.M.S.Iyer Ms.(S.R.No.146749) Divisional Officer IV Ahmedabad.

26.Chakraborti (S.R.No.302023) Divisional Office IV, Calcutta.

27.S.Iyer (S.R.No.040240) Regional Office, Madras.

28.J.K.Kapoor (S.R.No.214043) C.B.O. I, Amritsar.

29.P.R.Singh (S.R.No.215171) Branch Office, Jagidishpur.

30.J.N.Rana (S.R.No.159182) C.B.O. II, Raipur.

31.V.K.Parekh (S.R.No.206423) C.B.O. VI, Kanpur.

32.A.M.Chandwani (S.R.no.146340) Divisional Office III, Ahmedabad.

33.K.L.Gupta (S.R.No.206253) Branch Office, Naini.

34.S.Arora (S.R.No.216372) through The Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., Head Office, A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

35.M.K.Behl (S.R.No.001155) Divisional Office I, New Delhi.

36.N.Sundararaman (S.R.No.003158) Branch Office Cantonment, Bangalore.

37.P.R.Bahagat (S.R.No.217654) Divisional Office II, Jammu.

38.K.V.R.Chaudhary (Kankamedala) (S.R.No.407151) Branch Office, Vizag.

39.S.C.Sharma (S.R.No.004839) Head Office, New Delhi.

40.D.Malik (S.R.No.031676) C.B.O. I, Bhubaneshwar 41.N.V.Satyanarayan (S.R.No.411833) DAB, Hyderabad.

42.Jaspal Singh Madhok (S.R.No.051322) Branch Office I, Hissar.

43.H.C.Dinghra (S.R.No.228788) Branch Office, Bikaner.

44.Madhusudan Kumar (S.R.No.228796) Head Office, New Delhi.

45.M.Johnson (S.R.no.045091) Regional office, Cochin.

46.Satyapal Alha (S.R.No.603058) Branch Office, Petlad, through Head Office, 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

47.Ajay Gupta (S.R.No.006963) Head Office, New Delhi.

48.Arvind Tiagi (S.R.No.228060) Branch Office XI, New Delhi.

49.Ashok Kaw (S.R.No.040266) Regional Office, New Delhi.

50.Kaushal Kumar (S.R.No.040312) Regional Office, Lucknow.

51.Amrish KR Gupta (S.R.No.219541) Branch Office, Bhatinda, through Head Office, 25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

52.Ms.Jasbirkaur (S.R.No.40061) Regional Office, Chandigarh, 53.Ms.Neelamseth (S.R.No.40100)_ Regional Office, Lucknow.

54.N.K.Goel (S.R.No.40134) Divisional Office, Ambala Cantonment.

55.Ms.Elizabeth Philip (S.R.No.146761) Head Office, Hansalaya.

56.M.C.Vaid (S.R.No.216551) Regional Office, Lucknow.

57.J.M.Gupta (S.R.No.21341) Divisional Office, Jammu.

58.A.H.Safvi (S.R.No.205869) CBO-II, Lucknow.

59.J.N.Soni (S.R.No.211265) Divisional Office IV, New Delhi.

60.K.M.Adenwala (S.R.No.148741) Divisional office -III, Ahmedabad.

61.B.C.Chand Basavaiah (S.R.No.40653) Branch Office-II, N.R.S.Q're Bawlar.

62.H.S.Paul (S.R.No.217255) Branch Office, Alwar.

63.Sudhir Goel (S.R.No.3018) CBO-I, Nagpur.

64.M.C.Tomar (S.R.No.218170) Branch Office, Fatehabad, A25/27, Asaf Ali Raod, New Delhi.

65.S.C.S.Bist (S.R.No.5169) "Oriental House"

A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

66.M.Alagesan (S.R.No.412287) Branch Office X, Tondiar, Madras.

67.Gopishankar (S.R.no.450898) Divisional Office, Vellore.

68.A.K.Verma (S.R.No.555240) Regional Office, Indore.

69.S.Illangovan (S.R.No.419575) Divisional Offie, Vijayawada 70.K.V.Nagarajan (S.R.No.450928) Divisional Office, Salem.

71.S.Parthiban (S.R.No.402741) Divisional Office -VII, Madras.

72.R.K.Pattibasu (S.R.No.4030) (P.R.Kumar) Regional Office, Hyderabad.

73.V.K.Iyer (S.R.No.600113) Regional office, Indore.

74.S.V.Dalvi (S.R.No.112151) Divisional Office-II Mumbai.

75.V.Ramamurthy (S.R.No.400530) I.A.D. Madras.

76.Dr.S.S.Rathore (S.R.No.228818) Branch Office, Kishangarh.

77.Dr.S.B.Srivastava (S.R.No.151947) Regional office, Ahmedabad.

78.V.P.Deshmukh (S.R.No.4037) Regional Office, Indore.

79.S.Sudarsanan (S.R.No.45184) Regional Office, Bangalore.

80.S.S.Raman (S.R.No.15447) C.B.O., Calicut.

81.K.Illango (S.R.No.45185) Divisional Office, C.R.Nagar, Bangalore.

82.Ms.Sabitha Khanna (S.R.No.40371) Branch Office -II, Chandigarh.

83.C.A.Srinivasan (S.R.No.496121) Divisional Office -II, Madras.

84.D.K.M.S.Raju (S.R.No.403806) Divisional Office -III, Hyderabad.

85.S.Mukhopadhayay (S.R.No.40428) Regional Office, Calcutta.

86.S.Singh Kanwar (S.R.No.40444) Branch Office -I, Simla.

87.A.R.M.Mazagonwala (S.R.No.4046) DAB-II, Bangalore.

88.R.Narasimhan (S.R.No.40495) Divisional Office, Junagar.

89.Ms.Anuja Bansi (Shiromony) (S.R.No.40533) Divisional Office, New Delhi.

90.Vinodkumar (S.R.No.40568) Regional Office, Ghaziabad.

91.Bhajan Singh (S.r.No.3069) Divisional Office - XII, New Delhi.

92.M.K.Bundela (S.R.No.156752) Divisional Officer, Ratlam, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-2.

93.S.P.S.Ravi (S.R.No.219436) C.B.O.-II, Dehradun.

94.D.R.Salaria (S.R.No.22102) Branch Office, Sirga.

95.B.M.Das (S.R.No.327274) Divisional Office, Cuttack.

96.Ms.Malini Ramamurthy (S.R.No.7439) Head Office, New Delhi.

97.J.K.Sivakumar (S.R.No.40817) Branch Office, Chickmangalore.

98.K.Nachiappan (S.R.No.408298) Branch Office -I, Madurai.

99.S.K.Bharadwaj (S.R.No.209562) Head Office, New Delhi.

100.R.C.Tahiliani (S.R.No.204862) Divisional Office-IV, New Delhi.

101.V.K.Sharma (S.R.No.1031) Head Office, New Delhi.

102.P.S.Venkataraman (S.R.No.16961) Regional Office, Cochin.

103.O.P.Dua (S.R.No.4863) Branch office, Jawalaheri.

104.Chander Sekar (S.R.No.5525) Branch Office, Mehrauli, New Delhi.

105.M.S.Srinivasan (S.R.No.40363) K.R.Puram, Bangalore.

106.A.K.Sehgal (S.R.no.217832) DAB, Chandigarh.

107.G.R.Saool (S.R.No.127442) Branch Office, Borivili.

108.J.Parameswaran (S.R.No.40652) Branch Office, Trichur.

109.S.S.Mundra (S.R.No.159603) C.B.O. through Head office, A25/27 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

110.G.K.Agarwal (S.R.No.4893) Head Office, New Delhi.

111.D.H.Ranpura (S.R.No.151742) Branch office, Udhana, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

112.D.Prasad Rao (S.R.No.410985) Branch Office, Gajuwaka, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

113.V.Raghuraman (S.R.No.417874) Branch office, Chittoor.

114.Dipanjaw Dutta (S.R.No.319562) Branch Office, Garia, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-2.

115.Dr.N.P.Sharma (S.R.No.231027) DTC, Udaipur, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

116.Devendra Pant (S.R.No.255351) Regional Office, Lucknow.

117.Dinesh K.R.Vaishnava (S.R.No.502327) CBO-II, Uraipur, through Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

118.Ms.Lathapoorani Chennaiappan (S.R.No.422819) Divisional Office, Madras.

119.Birpal Singh (S.R.No.40177) CBO-I, Ghaziabad.

120.R.N.Saxena (S.R.No.1261) Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-2/ 121.Ms.Gargi Paul (S.R.No.3017) Divisional office - IX, New Delhi.

122.Bhagwant Singh (S.R.No.156680) CBO- Indore.

123.Satvir Singh (S.R.No.3174) CBO-XIII, N-39, New Delhi.

124.A.B.Parekh (S.R.No.116513) Branch Office -I, Mumbai.

125.T.Nagappa (S.R.No.407429) Branch office, Basavanguli.

126.S.Kohli (S.R.No.3751) BO-Rohini, New Delhi.

127.A.K.Bhatta Charya (S.R.No.318825) Divisional Office - VII, Calcutta.

128.S.R.Narang (S.R.No.4979) CBO-V, New Delhi.

129.V.S.V.Raghavan (S.R.No.3816) Head office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

130.Babu Ram (S.R.No.217557) CBO-III, Meerut.

131.P.V.Srivastava (S.R.No.205851) Branch Office -III, Kanpur Dehat.

132.Navneet Doda (S.R.No.55280) Head Office, A25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi.

133.S.K.Gangoli (S.R.No.104990) Regional Office, Mumbai.

134.Rajiv Gupta (S.R.No.40410) Divisional Office-II, Pune.

135.N.K.Saluja (S.R.No.204846) Branch Office, Palam, New Delhi.

... Respondents Prayer: Petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India praying for issuance of a Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus calling for the records relating to the promotion from Administrative Officer to Assistant Manager Cadre for the year 1995-96, 1996-97, dated 28.04.1995 & 17.06.1996 and to quash the same and to direct the inclusion of the petitioner's name at the appropriate place in the Panel and promote the petitioner from Administrative Officer to Assistant Manager with retrospective effect from the date on which the 6th respondent has been granted to the cadre of Assistant Manager with all consequential rights, privileges, seniority, monitory benefits and rights. For Petitioners : Mr.P.R.Balasubramaian For Respondents : Mr.V.Jumbunathan (For R3) NA for others

ORDER

The learned counsel on record for the writ petitioner submits that the writ petitioner is no more and that he has no instructions from the legal representatives of the writ petitioner to pursue the matter further. Therefore, he wants to close the writ petition as infructuous and to this effect, an endorsement has also been made by him in the court file, which reads as follows:- "The petitioner died. No instruction from his

LRs to continue the case. Hence, it may be closed as infructuous."

2.In the light of the submission and the endorsement made by the learned counsel for the writ petitioner, the writ petition is dismissed as infructuous. No costs. Sd/- Assistant Registrar //True copy// Sub Assistant Registrar ssv To, 1.The Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Oriental Insurance Company Ltd., Head Office, Oriental House, A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

2.The Assistant General Manager, Appointing Authority for Promotion "Oriental House"

A-25/27, Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi-110 002.

3.The Region-in-Charge, U.I.L Building Regional Office, No.8, Esplanade, Madras-600 108.

W.P.No.5627 of 1997 MR(CO) GN(05/12/2017)