Supreme Court of India

State of Andhra Pradesh and V. Ranga Rao and Ors. v. K. Ranganathan and Ors. and the State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors.

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Reported as [1990] 3 S.C.R. 912
Bench P.B. Sawant J.
Decided 21 August 1990

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the decision of the High Couurt suffers fromlegal infirmities and has to be set aside.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Civil Services: Andhra Pradesh State and Subordinate Service ' Rules-Rule 22(ii)(c)-Deletion of-Junior Engineers-Transferred to c Electricity Board-Seniority List-Revised by Government-Validity of- . O.Ms. No. I 166 dated 7. I 1.1973-Interpretation of. The appellants and the respondents who were originally appoin- led as Junior Engineers in the Andhra Pradesh Electricity Subordinate Service, were subsequently transferred along with other Junior _). Engineers to the State Electricity Board with effect from October I, 1973 on the basis of options exercised by them to join the Board, in response

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