Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 566 · Decided 28 September 2021
Malook Singh and Others v. State of Punjab and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 566 · [2021] 7 S.C.R. 1080
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6026/2021
- Decided
- 28 September 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, VIKRAM NATH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 142
Headnote
Service Law - Determination of seniority - Ad hoc service, if counted for - Doctrine of res judicata vis-à-vis law of precedent - In view of an earlier writ petition filed by appellants-ad hoc employees against regularly after them, seniority list was redrawn and the appellants were granted seniority w.e.f. dates of their initial appointment by including the period of ad hoc service - Fixation of seniority challenged by private respondents who were not party to the earlier writ petition but were adversely
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