Supreme Court of India

Ajit Kumar Rath v. State of Orissa

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Reported as [1999] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 302
Bench S. Saghir Ahmad J.
Decided 2 November 1999

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, this plea has to be rejected, particularly as the F judgment, of which a portion has been extracted above, related to the same Service Rules with which we are concerned in the present case.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service matter---Orissa Service of Engineer Rules, 1941-Rule 26-Fixation of inter-se seniority between direct recruits and promotees appointed to the same post in the same year-If appointed on the same day, promotees will rank senior to direct recruits-Appointment relates to actual date of appointment and not to the date on which the post fell vacant-Seniority to be counted from date of appointment if appointed according to rules­ Service rendered in the ad-hoc post on promotion, pending approval of the Public Service Commission, to be treated as regular service if promotion was regular as

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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