Supreme Court · 2003 INSC 524 · Decided 7 October 2003
Prafulla Kumar Das and Ors v. State of Orissa and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2003 INSC 524 · [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 301
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 611/1992
- Decided
- 7 October 2003
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, R.C. LAHOTI, B.N. AGRAWAL, S.B. SINHA, AR. LAKSHMANAN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309, 14
Headnote
Service Law : A B Seniority-Legal fiction of "year of allotment"-Applicability of- C Orissa Administrative Service-Merger of erstwhile junior branch with the senior branch in December, 1973-Formation of a single integrated cadre-Long established policy of the State as to appointment and the principle of "year of allotment"­ Held valid by this Court in the case of Nityananda Kar-Based on such principle, whether mergerists in the integrated service from the erstwhile D junior branch could be placed in gradation list below direct recruits subsequently appointed in 1975
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