Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 49 · Decided 29 January 2021
Manjit and ORS. v. Union of India and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 49 · [2021] 1 S.C.R. 474
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 78/2021
- Decided
- 29 January 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, INDIRA BANERJEE, SANJIV KHANNA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16, 32, 14
Headnote
Service Law: Largess Scheme - Providing for entry into service for certain wards of serving employees of railways, without undergoing a competitive selection - Writ Petition u/Art. 32 - Seeking direction to the State under the Scheme - Held: The Union Government after revisiting the Scheme, upon direction of the Courts, has terminated the Scheme - The Scheme has rightly been terminated as the same provided for an avenue of back door entry into the service, which was at odds with Art. 16 of
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