Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 560 · Decided 28 September 2021
The State of Bihar & ORS. v. Arbind Jee
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 560 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 47
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3767/2010
- Decided
- 28 September 2021
- Bench
- R. SUBHASH REDDY, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service law: Retrospective seniority - Claim for, from a date when an employee was not even borne in service - Held: Retrospective seniority unless directed by court or expressly provided by the applicable Rules, should not be allowed, as in so doing, others who had earlier entered can accrue only after a person joins service - In the instant case, precedence of seniority was claimed by respondent over other regular employees who had entered service much before him - Respondent's case was of compassionate appointment on the order of court - The
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