Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Ors. v. K.K. Vadera and Ors.

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Reported as [1989] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 751
Bench Murari Mohon Duti and S. Natarajan JJ.
Decided 26 October 1989

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons aforesaid, we set aside the judgment of the Tri­ bunal directing that the promotions of the respondents should be not from the date of the orders of promotion, but from the date the posts were created.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Civil Services: Promotion-Effective date-Promotion. granted/ post created. Defence Research and Development Service Rules, 1970: Rule 8-Promotion of Junior Scientific Officers to posts of Scientists ' '- Held effective from the date promotion is granted. Under Rule 8(l)(a). of the Defence Research & Development Senice Rules, 1970, Junior Scientific Officers in the Defence Research & Development Organisation were eligible for promotion to the posts of Scientists ' ' upto 50 per cent of the vacancies in the grade; . The respondents who were holding the posts of Junior Scientific Officers, and

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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