Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 528 · Decided 7 August 2014
Puducherry S.C. People Welfare Association v. Chief Secretary to GOVT., Union Territory of Pondicherry & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 528 · [2014] 13 S.C.R. 1087
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 10829/2010
- Decided
- 7 August 2014
- Bench
- RAJENDRA MAL LODHA, MADAN B. LOKUR, KURIAN JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 342(1), 341(2), 342(2), 341, 342, 341(1)
Headnote
Service Law - Reservation - For Scheduled Caste candidates - Entitlement - Government Orders related to reservation benefits in promotion and employment to Group B c C and D posts and in professional courses - Challenge Government Orders not sustainable as they 0 were not in consonance with the Presidential Order, 1964 - By no executive power, amendment, modification, alteration or variance in the Presidential Order was permissible - It was not open to the executive to do anything directly or indirectly leading
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