Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 273 · Decided 20 December 1979
Dharam Dev Mehta v. The Union of India & Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 273 · [1980] 2 S.C.R. 554
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 174/1976
- Decided
- 20 December 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, R.S. PATHAK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
DEV MEHTA v. THE UNION OF INDIA & OTHERS December 20, 1979 [V. R. KRISHNA IYER AND R. S. PATHAK, JJ,] Compulsory retiren1ent-Appointing authority as per Rule 2(a) oi C.C.s ...... (CCA) Rules 1965 i::i Co111ptroller & Auditor General of lndia--Contpu!Jory retire1ne11t orders under after setting out alternative authorities, that the appointing authority is one out of four categories who is the highest, by using the expression "whicbev0r authority is the highest". There is no doubt that of the four classes of authorities listed under Rule 2(a), the one falling
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