Supreme Court of India

Asis Kumar Sama Nt& Ors. v. State of West Bengal & Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 8 S.C.R. 329
Bench A.K. Mathur and Dal Veer Bhandari JJ.
Decided 12 July 2007

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Service Law: Seniority-State Forest Service-Appointment by promotion as also by direct recruitment-The question: Whether the officers promoted to the service can en bloc be given seniority retrospectively over the officers directly recruitted to the sen:ice-Referred to the larger Bench. The instant appeal arose out of the controversy whether the officers promoted in 1991 to the State Forest Service can en bloc be given seniority retrospectively w.e.f. 31.12.1990 over the officers directly recruited to the said service. Noticing the conflicting decisions of the Supreme Court on the issue, the

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