Supreme Court · 1972 INSC 48 · Decided 11 February 1972
P. B. Roy v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1972 INSC 48 · [1972] 3 S.C.R. 449
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2172/1968
- Decided
- 11 February 1972
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, A.N. GROVER, A.N. RAY, D.G. PALEKAR, M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309, 226
Headnote
. Civil Servant~llolding temporary post-Constitution of New service -'Departmental candidate' holding temporary post appointed to pernza. nent post but of a lower grade-If violative of Art, 311. The appo:llant was holding a temporary post of Editor in the Publi· cations DiVIsion of the post was sanctioned upto 28-2-1957. On 16-2-1959, tho PreS1dent of India, in exercise of the powers conferred by the proviso to Art. 309 of the Constitution, promulgated the Central Information Ser­ vice Rules, 1959. These Rules were meant for the creation of a Cen· tral
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