Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 44 · Decided 20 February 1979
DISTT. Registrar Palghat & ORS. v. M.B. Koyyakuti & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 44 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 242
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2036/1969
- Decided
- 20 February 1979
- Bench
- R.S. SARKARIA, O. CHINNAPPA REDDY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 14, 16
Headnote
Kera/a State & Subordinate Service Rules, 1958-r. 28(b)(ii)-Scope o/­ Gover"!iment servo.nt appointed as lower dil·i.sion clerk relaxing minimum edu· cational qualification-No provision in rule prescribing minimum educationar- ' • qualificction for respondent, who originally belonged to the ~fadras Ministerial Service,.­ was allotted to the State of Kera1a as tar lower division clerk on the reorgani· sation of States. On the ground thai he belonged to a community which was educationally backward the State Government of ~ladras
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