Supreme Court of India

Union Public Service Commission v. Girishjayantilal Vaghela and Ors

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Reported as [2006] 1 S.C.R. 1006
Bench K.G. Balakrishnan and G.P. Mathur JJ.
Decided 2 February 2006

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons discussed above, we are clearly of the opinion that respondent no.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Central Civil Service (Classification, Control and Appeal) Rules- Rule 2(h)-Relaxation of Upper Age limit-Entitlement of-Respondent c appointed on contract basis for a short period at a fIXed salary de hors the recruitment rules--Claimed relaxation of upper age limit provided for by the rules for Government servants--Held. since the appointment was purely contractual, he has not acquired the status of Government servant-Hence, not eligible for any relaxation in upper age limit for Government servants. Constitution of India, 1950-Article 16--objecl and scope of-Held object is to create a

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 2 referred to

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