Supreme Court of India

Prafulla Kumar Das and Ors v. State of Orissa and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 301
Bench V.N. Khare, R.C. Lahoti, B.N. Agrawal, S.B. Sinha and Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan JJ.
Decided 7 October 2003

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that reliance by the learned counsel on Roshan Lal Tandon 's case ,D (supra) is totally mis-placed.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Service Law : Seniority-Legal fiction of "year of allotment"-Applicability of- Orissa Administrative Service-Merger of erstwhile junior branch with the senior branch in December, 1973-Formation of a single integrated cadre-Long established policy of the State as to appointment and allocation of seniority was to follow the principle of "year of allotment"­ Held valid by this Court in the case of Nityananda Kar-Based on such principle, whether mergerists in the integrated service from the erstwhile junior branch could be placed in gradation list below direct recruits subsequently appointed in

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Of those, 2 referred to

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