Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 548 · Decided 21 August 2013
State of Uttar Pradesh & Others v. Ashok Kumar Srivastava & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 548 · [2013] 11 S.C.R. 846
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6967/2013
- Decided
- 21 August 2013
- Bench
- ANIL R. DAVE, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
SeNice Law: c Seniority- Date of seniority- Seniority granted w.e.f. the date of promotional order - The promotee claimed retrospective seniority w.e.f. the date the vacancy had arisen - High Court allowed the claim of the promotee on the grounds that the seNice rules provided to decide seniority of arising of vacancy; and that there has been hostile discrimination against the promotee as other 10 promotees had been accorded seniority w.e.f. the date of arising of vacancy - Held: Conferment of retrospective seniority to the promotee by High Court is not tenable - As per seNice rules the
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