RANCHI, India, April 25 -- Jharkhand High Court issued the following order on March 25:

1. Heard the counsel for the appellant, the counsel for the respondents-State and the learned counsel for the 6th respondent.

2. None appears for respondent No.7, though, notice in this appeal has been served on the 7th respondent.

3. The issue relates to seniority of the appellant, vis-a-vis, the private respondents in the seniority-list notified on 29.11.2022 of the Upper Division Clerk employees in the office of the Deputy Inspector General of Police, North Chotanagpur Range.

4. The appellant had been appointed to the post of Upper Division Clerk on compassionate grounds on 06.04.1999 after the death of his father who had been working with the ...