Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1120 · Decided 3 October 2019
Air Commodore Naveen Jain v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1120 · [2019] 13 S.C.R. 241
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3019/2017
- Decided
- 3 October 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16, 14
Headnote
Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007: Promotion policy - Criteria - Merit-cum-seniority or Seniority-cum-merit - Appellant along with nine other officers were considered for promotion against five vacancies in the rank of Air Vice Marshal - Appellant could not be promoted though that he was placed at serial no.3 in the seniority in the select list of four candidates - The first officer on the select list was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal against the first available vacancy whereas, next two vacancies arose after the appellant attained the age of
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