Supreme Court of India

P.N. Premachandran v. The State of Kerala and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 342
Bench V.N. Khare and S.B. Sinha JJ.
Decided 6 November 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we do not find any merit in the appeals.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Service Law : Kera/a State and Subordinate Service Rules, 1958: rr. 31 and 39-Promotion-Soil Survey Assistants-Temporarily promoted as Assistant Directors (Soil Survey)-Later, Departmental Promotion Committee promoting the officers regularly-Government directing promotion to take effect from the initial date of temporary promotion-Held, there is no irregularity in grant of promotion with retrospective effect-In the ordinary course the officers were entitled to be promoted as Assistant Directors in the event a Departmental Promotion Committee being constituted in due time­ State Government

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