Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 520 · Decided 7 August 2013

Nihal Singh & Others v. State of Punjab & Others

Court
Supreme Court of India
Citation
2013 INSC 520 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 1
Case number
CIVIL APPEAL No. 1059/2005
Decided
7 August 2013
Bench
H.L. GOKHALE, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (2-judge bench)
Outcome
Appeal(s) allowed
Case type
Civil

Headnote

. Service Law - Regularisation - Appointment of appellants ex-servicemen as Special Police Officers (SPOs) A B in terms of the procedure uls. 17 of the Act - Claim of C appellants for regularisation - Rejected - Legality - Held: Recruitment of appellants was made in the background of terrorism time - Decision to resort to procedure uls. 17 was taken at the highest level of the State by conscious choice to provide necessary c:5 security to the pµblic sector banks - Process of selection adopted in identifying the appellants was not unreasonable or arbitrary - From the mere fact

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