Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 274 · Decided 9 October 1969
Rabindra Nath Bose & Ors v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 274 · [1970] 2 S.C.R. 697
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 146/1967
- Decided
- 9 October 1969
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, S.M. SIKRI, G.K. MITTER, A.N. RAY, P. JAGANMOHAN REDDY (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 226, 32, 16
Headnote
Constitution of India, Arts. 14 and !&-Whether applicable to acts done in pre-Constitution period-Prom_otion of Income-tax Officers on the basis of Seniority Rules made in 1952 challenged in writ petition in 1967 -Petition is barred by laches-Confirmed Assistant Commissioners be disturbed by delayed appeal to fundamental rights. In 1943 the Government of India feit it necessary to re-organise the entire service of Income-tax Officers and to create a Central 'Service and uniform pay scales for different constituent grades. The main idea was to create Class I Cadre
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