Supreme Court of India

Indu Shekhar Singh and Ors. v. State of U.P. and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 497

Bench S.B. Sinha and P.P. Naolekar JJ.

Decided 28 April 2006

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What the Court ordered

We hold that while determining the inter se seniority of the deputationists in the new cadre under the Commission after they are finally absorbed, their past services rendered in the Government have to be taken into account.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Uttar Pradesh Urban Planning and Development Act, 1973: Section 5- (2)-Respondents, employees of U.P. Jal Nigam, on deputation to the Development Authorities-Options vis-a-vis their absorption in the authorized centralized service stipulating condition that their past services rendered in U.P. Jal Nigam would not be reckoned for the purpose of determination of seniority and they would be placed below the officers who had been appointed on regular basis in centralized service after their absorption-ca/led for-Respondents resigned from their services from UP. Jal Nigam-Whether benefit of past

Authorities it was built on

1967 S.G. Jaisinghani v. Union of India and Ors. cited by 69
1994 Ramankutty Guptan v. Avara cited by 11
1982 National Textile Workers' Union Etc. v. P.R. Ramkrishnan and Others cited by 9
2003 Bimlesh Tanwar v. State of Haryana and Ors. cited by 9
1998 State of Andhra Pradesh v. Dr. K. Ramchandran cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2013 State of Rajasthan v. Ucchab Lal Chhanwal relied on
2012 Vijay Kumar Kaul and Others v. Union of India and Others relied on
2024 National Highway Authority of India v. G Athipathi and Others referred to
2021 Ajay Kumar Shukla and Others v. Arvind Rai and Others referred to
2017 Mrlgank Johrl & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 3 referred to

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