Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 167 · Decided 7 August 1967
Sant Ram Sharma v. State of Rajasthan & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 167 · [1968] 1 S.C.R. 111
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 182/1966
- Decided
- 7 August 1967
- Bench
- K.N. WANCHOO, R.S. BACHAWAT, V. RAMASWAMI, G.K. MITTER, K.S. HEGDE (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16, 32
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950, Arts, 14 and !&-Selection grade po•ts in Indian Police Service-Appointme?1t on basis of merit and senio­ rity considered only when merit equal-If violative of the guarantee oJ equality. The All India Services Act, 1951, empowers the Central Govern- C ment of service of persons appointed to an All India Service. In exercise of this power the Central Government framed the Indian Police .Service (Regulation of Seniority) Rules, 1954. Rule 6 of the said Rules re­ quires that a Gradation List of all Police Officers in a State shoula be
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