Supreme Court of India

Superintending Engineer and Ors. v. A. Sankaraiah

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 923
Bench Ashok Bhan and Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan JJ.
Decided 17 October 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above, the appeal is accepted and the order of the Tribunal is set aside.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Service Law: Retrenchment-On being declared surplus respondent redeployed as a fresh entrant under 1966 Office Memorandum of Ce'?tral Government- 1991 Office Memorandum providing higher pay scale on completion of 5 years service in present department-Benefit of past service for entitlement of higher pay scale-Held, the purpose of the two Office Memorandums was not to disturb the seniority of the existing employees-:-Hence, the past service cannot be taken into account. The services of the respondent, who was appointed as Junior Engineer on 30.5.1980 in Central Government, was retrenched on

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