Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 808 · Decided 10 August 2022
Union of India & ORS. v. Gopal Meena & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 808 · [2022] 17 S.C.R. 1106
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3314/2010
- Decided
- 10 August 2022
- Bench
- HEMANT GUPTA, VIKRAM NATH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Service Law - Promotion - Special drive for filling up backlog vacancies vis-à-vis regular promotion - Distinction between ad hoc promotions and regular promotions - Held: Distinction between a special drive for filling up backlog vacancies and regular promotion to and the unreserved categories, is too obvious - While filling up vacancies by way of promotion on regular basis, a Departmental Promotion Committee (DPC) is constituted and the profile of the candidates coming within the zone of consideration is prepared - But in a special drive
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