Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 256 · Decided 18 December 1970
State of Punjab v. Hiralal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 256 · [1971] 3 S.C.R. 267
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1218/1968
- Decided
- 18 December 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE, A.N. GROVER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 16(1)
Headnote
c D E F Constitution of India, Art. 16(1) & (4)-Reservation for backward classes made applicable -~o initial appointments as well as promotions­ Validity of. The appellant-State issued an Order according to which reservation of posts for Scheduled castes, tribes and backward classes was were in the State Government service and the former was the senior. ~ut since the latter belonged to a scheduled caste he was promoted over the first respondent as per the Order, The High Court quashed the promotion on the basis that such reservation might lead to various anomalies. In appeal to
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