Supreme Court of India

Kishore Chandra Panigrahi v. State of Orissa and Ors.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 116
Bench K. Ramaswamy and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.
Decided 29 October 1996

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Service Law : Orissa Ministerial Services (Method of Recruitment and conditions of Service of Clerks, Assistants in the District office and Office of Heads of Department) Rules, 1963: Promotion-Statutory Recruitment Rules-Temporary promotion contrary to-Employee temporarily promoted as junior clerk in Class III from post of peon in Class IV-Subsequently reverted to substantive post of peon-Held: such promotion being contrary to statutory rules and per se illegal did not confer any right on the employee to the promotional pas/- Hence, such reversion neither illegal nor punitive in nature. '

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