Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1332 · Decided 6 December 2019
Dharmendra Prasad & ORS. v. Sunil Kumar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1332 · [2019] 14 S.C.R. 763
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9247/2019
- Decided
- 6 December 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309
Headnote
Service Law: Seniority - Determination of - Of the employees of a statutory body - Different appointment letters issued to different categories i.e. General, OBC, SC and ST at different time - Date of appointment of appellants (candidates higher in merit list) was later who were lower in the merit list) - Later seniority list declared on the basis of the merit list - Seniority list was challenged before the Tribunal taking the plea that the list should be as per the date of appointment and not merit list - Application dismissed - In
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