Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 248 · Decided 25 May 2012
Vijay Kumar Kaul and Others v. Union of India and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 248 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 128
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4986/2007
- Decided
- 25 May 2012
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, DIPAK MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
SERVICE LA w· Seniority - Delay in making claim for seniority - Effect of - Held: Claim for seniority is to be put C forth within a reasonable period of time - Belated approach is not permissible as in the meantime interest of third parties gets ripened - The acts done during the and should not be lightly brushed aside - It becomes an obligation to take into consideration D the balance of equity in entertaining the petition or declining it on the ground of delay and /aches - In the case at hand, appellants were appointed w.e.f. 1993 and 1996 respectively on the directions
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