Supreme Court of India
B.K. MOHAPATRA v. STATE OF ORlSSA
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the clause in the scheme which reads: "But for the purpose of reckoning their seniority in Government service, their services will be counted from the date of conversion of the schools into Government schools" is void.
Judgment, page 9
From the headnote
number of the princely States, situated within the territories of the present State of Orissa, were merged with effect from January 1, 1948, with the Province of orissa as it then existed. On such merger, the High Schools within the said princely States came under the juries diction of the Province of Orissa. The Schools belonged to two categories- ’ ’ type schools which were full-fledged High schools sending candidates for the Matriculation examination and ‘ ’ type schools which were incomplete schools, not sending candidates for the Matriculation examination.
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