Supreme Court of India

Bimlesh Tanwar v. State of Haryana and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] 2 S.C.R. 757

Bench V.N. Khare J.

Decided 10 March 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any merit in this appeal.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Service law: Rules Relating to the Appointment of Subordinate Judges in the Haryana Civil Service (Judicial Branch), 1951-Rules 1,8 and JO of Part -lnter se seniority between reserved category candidate and general category candidate-Determination of-Whether to be on merit or on the basis of roster point-Held, seniority is to be determined on the basis of merit and not on the basis of roster points-Seniority on the basis of roster points is to be fixed where there are different sources of recruitment to a service and quota of appointment for each source of recruitment is fixed under the rules

Authorities it was built on

1986 Neelima Shangla Ph.d. Candidate v. State of Haryana & Ors. cited by 24
1995 P.S. Ghalaut v. State of Haryana and Ors. cited by 8

Where later benches applied it

2022 Manoj Parihar & Ors. v. State of Jammu & Kashmir & Ors relied on
2011 D.P. Das v. Union of India and Ors. relied on
2021 V. Senthur and Another v. M. Vijayakumar, Ias,secretary, Tamil Nadu Public Service Commission and Another referred to
2017 B. K. Pavitra & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2025 Directorate of Revenue Intelligence v. Raj Kumar Arora & Ors. mentioned
2010 H.S. Vankani and Ors. v. State of Gujarat and Ors. mentioned
2007 State of U.P. and Anr. v. Dinkar Sinha mentioned
2007 A.P. Cooperative Oil Seeds Growers Federation Ltd. Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh v. D. Achyuta Rao and Ors. mentioned
2006 Indu Shekhar Singh and Ors. v. State of U.P. and Ors. mentioned

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to · 5 mentioned

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