Supreme Court · 2000 INSC 588 · Decided 12 December 2000
K.R. Lakshman and ORS. v. Karnataka Electricity Board and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2000 INSC 588 · [2000] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 535
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 811/1998
- Decided
- 12 December 2000
- Bench
- G.B. PATTANAIK, B.N. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
Service Law Karnataka Electricity Board Recruitment and Promotion Regulations, C 1969 (as amended on 3.2.1982)--Constitution of India, 1950-Article 14- Promotion- To the post of Junior Engineer- Technically qualified direct recruits and non-technical promotees entitled to 35% quota for promotion - between direct recruits and the promotees in respect of 35% quota in order to remove stagnation D Held, the amendment is not discriminatory, and hence not violative of Article 14- When a provision is challenged as violative of Article 14, it is necessary in the first place to ascertain the
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