Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 1328 · Decided 20 November 2008
State of Karnataka & ORS. v. K. Govindappa & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 1328 · [2008] 16 S.C.R. 457
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6729/2008
- Decided
- 20 November 2008
- Bench
- ALTAMAS KABIR, MARKANDEY KATJU (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16(1)
Headnote
Service law - Reservation, rule of- Applicability to single and isolated posts in respect of different disciplines - Held: c Each discipline which consists of single post exists as separate cadre for the said discipline - Rule of reservation does not apply in respect of single post - Plurality for reservation - Jn absence thereof, if rule of reservation is applied, Article 16(1) would be offended - On D facts, incumbent appointed to the single post of Lecturer in 91 -11 History in the college - Different disciplines taught in the college for which there were several lecturers -
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