Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. Pushpa Rani & Others

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Reported as [2008] 11 S.C.R. 440

Bench B.N. Agrawal and G.S. Singhvi JJ.

Decided 29 July 2008

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6 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We hold that the Railway Board did not commit any illegality by directing that the H 480 SUPREME COURT REPORTS [2008] 1.1 S.C.R. A existing instructions with regard to the policy of reservation of posts for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes will apply at the stage of effecting promotion against the additional posts - and the Tribunal committed serious illegality by striking down para 14 of letter dated 9.10.2003.

Judgment, page 40

Authorities it was built on

1996 Ajit Singh Januja and Others v. State of Punjab and Others cited by 17
1988 Dr. Chakradhar Paswan v. State of Bihar & Ors. cited by 11
1968 B. S. Vadera v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2011 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. v. R. Santhakumari Velusamy & Ors. relied on
2011 J.S. Yadav v. State of U.P. & Anr. relied on
2026 Zubair. P v. State of Kerala & Ors. referred to
2025 Anjuman Ishaat-e-taleem Trust v. The State of Maharashtra and Others referred to
2022 Jarnail Singh & Ors v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta & Ors referred to
2021 The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. v. Principal Abhay Nandan Inter College & Ors. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 4 referred to

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