Supreme Court · 1991 INSC 283 · Decided 1 November 1991
Jaghnath v. Union of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1991 INSC 283 · [1991] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 152
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 651/1986
- Decided
- 1 November 1991
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.H. KANIA, KULDIP SINGH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
Civil· Service--Compositors in printing presses-Promotion --Categorisation of "highly skilled" and "skilled"-Seniority basis-Validity of Civil Service-Compositors in printing presses--Promotion --Stag­ nation between cadres-Removal of-Ratio prescribed. Petitioner presses all over India were entitled to the status and salary of Compositors, Grade I in the, "highly skilled" category with effect from January 1, 1966 on the ground that the decision of the Himachal Pradesh High Court in Thakur 's case was applicable in principle to all the
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