Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 23 · Decided 13 January 2009
S.S. Balu & ANR. v. State of Kerala & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 23 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 196
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 104/2009
- Decided
- 13 January 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service law - Appointment - Post of assistant - Names of appellants appearing in rank list but not appointed - c Vacancies reported just before expiry of rank list as anticipated vacancies and as such non-issuance of letter of advise - Subsequently, Government Order that there was no vacancy - - Claim of appointment by appellant - Held: Person does not D acquire a legal right to be appointed only because his name appears in select list - It is only when there is discrimination or arbitrariness in filling up the vacancies - State as employer has right to fill up all posts or not
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