Supreme Court of India

Principal, Mehar Chand Polytechnic and Anr. v. Anu Lumba and Ors.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 436
Bench S.B. Sinha and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.
Decided 8 August 2006

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered view that the directions issued by the High Court are absolutely illegal warranting our interference.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950-Article 16-Public employment-Project under scheme of Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of Jndia--Under norms for implementation of scheme expenditure on wages of employees had to be within a fixed limit of total recurring expenditure and taking them on scale was not permissible-High Court directing creation of posts and allowing grant of scale of pay-Correctness of-Held-Prior to appointment of employees no vacancy or sanctioned post existed-Posts were neither advertised nor notified to Employment Exchange-Recruitment was not in terms of statutory

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