Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 15 · Decided 18 January 1977
D. Nagaraja ETC. v. State of Karnataka & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 15 · [1977] 2 S.C.R. 626
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 883/1975
- Decided
- 18 January 1977
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, JASWANT SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16, 16(2), 226, 14, 309
Headnote
<;:onstitutio'! of lndia-A~ticle 226-Who can apply-Whether existence of a rzght essenllal-Mysore Village Offices Act 1908-Mysore Village Of]ices Abolition Act 1961. Karnataka- General Services (Revenu,e Subordinate Branch) Village.Acco1111- tant3 (Recruitment) Rules, 1970, The appellants held Village Offices Act 1908. This Court in the case of Gow/a Dasrath ~amarao held that a la\\'. which recognises the custom by which a preferential nght f? an office vested m t_he members of a particular family was not consis­ tant with the fundamental nght guaranteed by Article 16 of the
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