Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 262 · Decided 11 October 1991
Comptroller and Auditor General of India and ORS. v. Mohan Lal Mehrotra and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 262 · [1991] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 482
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1518/1980
- Decided
- 11 October 1991
- Bench
- K. JAGANNATHA SHETTY, YOGESHWAR DAYAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 148, 148(5)
Headnote
· Indian Audit & Accounts Departmellt (Accounts Officers, Assistant Accounts Officers, and Assistant Audit Officers) Recrnitment Rules, 1963-­ Filling up of posts by promotion on basis of seniority subject to fitness - Reservation of posts for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled instrnctions can be issued to supplement the statutory rnles. The respondents, Section Officers in the offices of the Accountant b General I, II and Ill, Allahabad, filed a writ petition before the High Court challenging the validity of administrative instructions contained in Circular No.
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