Supreme Court of India
R.C. Sahi and Ors. Etc. v. Union of India and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the above observations, it is clear that in the absence of a provision to give benefit of the past service in Army service to the ECOs in the main rule, the Executive Instructions are permissible and the Executive Instructions dated 5.7.72 were issued to achieve that object.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
c Central Reserve Police Force Act, 1949 : Central Reserve Police Force Rules, 1955 : Rules 8 and 105(JV- ) Emergency Commissioned Officers and Short-Service Commissioned Officers (Reservation and Vacancies) Rules, 1967 : Service law-Army-Fixing of seniority between the petitioners-Direct recruits and respondents-Emergency Commissioned Officers-Reckoning of past services-Appointment of Emergency Commissioned Officers to Central Reserve Police Force-Held in the absence of a provision to give benefit of the past service in Army service to the Emergency Commissioned Officers the Executive
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