Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 275 · Decided 1 November 1976
N. K. Chauhan & Ors . v. State of Gujarat & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 275 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 1037
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 463/1976
- Decided
- 1 November 1976
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
B Constitution of India-Articles 14-16-Civil Service-Seniority-Direct Recruits and Promotees-Quota-Whether roster implicit-Benefit of Service­ Wor~~& Phrases-"As far as ptacticab/e". The appellants are the promotee Deputy Collectors in the State of Gujarat. The conlf'sting 7 Deputy Collectors who are the contesting respondents in this C appeal and who were directly recruited as Deputy Collectors in and after 1963 claimed that they were senior to the appellants who were the promotees pro­ moted as Ueputy Collectors between the years 1960 and 1963 by tiling a
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