Supreme Court · 1998 INSC 174 · Decided 7 April 1998
Jagdish CH. Patnaik and ORS. v. State of Orissa and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1998 INSC 174 · [1998] 2 S.C.R. 676
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9108/1995
- Decided
- 7 April 1998
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, M. SRINIVASAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service law : Orissa Service of Engineers Rules, I 941: Rule 26. Seniority-Inter se-Direct recruits vis-a-vis promotees-Determination of-Officers-' 'Recruited by promotion and by direct recruitment in the same year"-Held: The word "recruited" means "appointed" and the when process of recruitment is started-Hence, direct D recruits recruited during the calendar year would be junior to the promotee recruits recruited during the said calendar year-Further, while determining seniority, reference to quota for direct recruitment and the vacancies under that quota,
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)