Supreme Court of India

Jai Narain Misra v. State of Bihar & Ors.

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Reported as [1971] 2 S.C.R. 392
Bench J.C. Shah J.
Decided 15 September 1970

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What the Court ordered

In the result this appeal is allowed and the writ petition dis· missed.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Civil cservice-Selection Post-Director. (If/ Agriculture--Method of filling up. . The Director of Agriculture in the respondent.state having retired tho State Government' wrote to the Public Service Commission requesting them to select one of the ! 4 officers shown in the list accompanying the letter · for being promoted as Director. The letter stated that the question of senill'rity among those officers was still under consideration and that the list was not arranged in accordance with seniority .. The pay scale of some of the officers in the list was Rs. 900 to Rs. 1,400 and others Rs.

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