Supreme Court of India

Badri Nath v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Ors.

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Reported as [2000] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 573

Bench M. Jagannadha Rao and Umesh C. Banerjee JJ.

Decided 29 September 2000

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What the Court ordered

We hold that from the mere fact that D the Chief Secretary who had earlier made certain adverse remarks against the appellant was the Chairman of the Screening Committee, no bias can be imputed from that fact alone.

Judgment, page 34

From the headnote

Service Law-Promotion-Right to be considered for- 'Fairness' in matter of consideration for promotion-Concept of-Manner in which adverse remarks can be taken into consideration-Relative strength of old remarks Relevance of remarks made before an earlier promotion-Powers of Court to issue a mandamus to promote a candidate to super time scale or to assess his grading-Scope-Constitution of India-Arts. 16, 226. Constitution of India-Article 226-Judicial Review-Powers of Court c to interfere with assessment made by Departmental Promotion Committee- Scope-Wednesbury Principle-Applicability of Art.

Authorities it was built on

1965 Dwarkanath, Hindu Undivided Family v. Income-tax Officer, Special Circle, Kanpur Andanr. cited by 15
1989 State of M.P. v. Ganekar Motghare cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2025 Raju Naryana Swamy v. State of Kerala & Ors. relied on
2025 Krishnadatt Awasthy v. State of M.P. & Ors. referred to
2023 Y. Balaji v. Karthik Desari & Anr. Etc. referred to
2022 Smt. Imlikokla Longchar & Ors v. The State of Nagaland & Ors. referred to
2021 Mohd. Mustafa v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2020 Bangalore Mysore Infrastructure Corridor Area Planning Authority & Anr. v. Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprise Limited & Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 5 referred to

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