Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1157 · Decided 17 October 2019
The State of Bihar & ORS. v. Devendra Sharma
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1157 · [2019] 15 S.C.R. 990
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7879/2019
- Decided
- 17 October 2019
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, HEMANT GUPTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309
Headnote
Service Law: Appointments - Illegal appointments - Entitlement to salary or consequential rights of pension and other monetary benefits - Held: Rights to salary, pension and other service benefits are entirely statutory in nature in public service - These rights, spring appointment to the post - Once it is found that the very appointment is illegal and is non-est in the eye of law, no statutory entitlement for salary or consequential rights of pension and other monetary benefits can arise - On facts, matter pertaining to appointments against Class
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