Supreme Court of India
Keshavji Devji Patel v. State of Gujarat.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we direct that the seniority of the direct recruits both outsiders and insiders should be determined according to the dates of their regular appointment through the UPSC and the petitioner-applicants should be placed in the seniority list after those direct recruits who are recruited till this date.
Judgment, page 7
From the headnote
The petitioner-applicants were recruited by the Railways on ad hoc basis as Assistant Divisional Medical Officers between 1968 and 1984. Though UPSC recruited candidates on regular basis from time to time, either due to non- availability of number of candidates or non-joining of selected candidates, vacancies remained and persons like the petitioners continued in such vacancies on ad-hoc basis. The petitioners riled Writ Petitions before this Court for regularisation of their services.…
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