Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Anr. v. S.S. Gill

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Reported as [2007] 8 S.C.R. 406
Bench Dr. Arijit Pasa Y At and Lokewshwar Singh Pant A JJ.
Decided 19 July 2007

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above observations, it is clear that in the absence of a provision to give benefit of the past service in army service to the ECOs in the main Rule, the Executiv.e Instructions are permissible and the Executive Instructions dated 5.7.1972 were issued to achieve that object.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

r- ;-- f t Service Law: Central Reserve Police Force Rules, 1955-Rule 8(b)-Seniority- c Determination of-Short Service Commissioned Officers in Army appointed in CRPF-Reckoning of past Army Service towards seniority-Entitlement of-Held: No provision in Rule 8(b) enables Army Officer or re-employed Army Officer to count his Army service for seniority in CRPF-Thus, SSCO!. not entitled to benefit of past service in Army for reckoning their seniority. The Short Service Commissioned Officers were appointed as Emergency Commissioned Officers on short sen·ice in Army. Thereafter, they were offered +

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