a march over officers who are otherwise eligible and they cannot be made to suffer injustice; denial of their legitimate expectation of consideration of their cases for promotion would be unjust and unfair. It is true, as rightly contended by Ms Nisha, that the criteria being conditions of service cannot be relaxed. Service conditions being essential conditions cannot be relaxed and it is not the case of the appellant-Bank that they have done that exercise. What the Board has done is giving an opportunity to the officers, who are otherwise eligible, to complete the required service conditions and then they would be given promotion, on completion of requisite conditions thereof. In view of the fact that they did not have the opportunity to serve and complete the qualifying service, with a view to see that those who had the advantage of completing the service would not steal a march over the seniors, they equally adopted an equitable principle of putting the officers in List B and giving them seniority after promotion below his immediate senior in MMGS-II so that injustice will not be meted out to such officers for no fault of theirs. The procedure adopted by the Bank is just, fair and reasonable."
