Supreme Court · 2018 INSC 495 · Decided 11 May 2018
Ashok Kumar & ORS. v. The State of Jharkhand & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2018 INSC 495 · [2018] 7 S.C.R. 755
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 877/2018
- Decided
- 11 May 2018
- Bench
- JASTI CHELAMESWAR, SANJAY KISHAN KAUL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309
Headnote
Jharkhand Judicial Service (Recruitment) Rules, 2004 - rr.21, 22 and 27 - Benefit of increment denied to the Judicial Officers till clearance of "higher grade" Hindi examination - Challenged - Held: r.22 of 2001 Rules referred to the requirement of passing When the 2004 Rules were enacted, they were in super-session of all earlier Rules and the 2001 Rules were specifically repealed by virtue of r.27 of the 2004 Rules - Thus, the earlier position stood obliterated from the commencement of the 2004 Rules - The 2004 Rules also made
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