Supreme Court of India
Sushma Mutreja v. Union of India and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the considered opinion that the re-drawing up of the seniority list in the year 1991 must be held to be an arbitrary exercise of power and the employer has failed to indicate any reason for altering the seniority list which had been E drawn up in the year 1989.
Judgment, page 6
From the headnote
Service Law: Central Secretariat Clerical Service Rules, 1962: Rule 11,12 and 25. Promotion-From LDC to UDC-LDC in one Ministry promoted as UDC and transferred to another Ministry-Seniority-Reckoning of-Held: Such · an employee would be senior to all those LDCs on that date as well as those LDCs on ad hoc promotion to the post of UDCs. c Seniority-Transfer from one cadre to a new cadre-Reckoning of seniority-Held, Such an employee must be treated to be lowest on the new cadre--.:But he cannot be junior. to those who were not even born in the new cadre on that date . . The appellant was
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