Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 27 · Decided 13 January 2009
Union of India and ORS. v. Shantiranjan Sarkar
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 27 · [2009] 1 S.C.R. 242
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 103/2009
- Decided
- 13 January 2009
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, J.M. PANCHAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 341
Headnote
Service law: Appointment - Scheduled Caste - Held: Member of Scheduled Caste, notified in any of the States c within the territories of India, having regard to the provisions contained in Article 341 of Constitution, is entitled to get the benefit of the said status for the purpose of entering respondent was Scheduled Caste - He was not appointed because of a mistake D committed on part of authorities - Delay in filing original application would not be bar in granting him equitable relief - Union of India as a benevolent litigant cannot be permitted to take advantage of its own wrong -
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