Supreme Court of India

S.S. Balu & Anr. v. State of Kerala & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 1 S.C.R. 196

Bench S.B. Sinha and Dr. Mukundakam Sharma JJ.

Decided 13 January 2009

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From the headnote

Service law - Appointment - Post of assistant - Names of appellants appearing in rank list but not appointed - c Vacancies reported just before expiry of rank list as anticipated vacancies and as such non-issuance of letter of advise - Subsequently, Government Order that there was no vacancy - Challenged by petitioners - Appointment of petitioners - Claim of appointment by appellant - Held: Person does not acquire a legal right to be appointed only because his name appears in select list - It is only when there is discrimination or arbitrariness in filling up the vacancies - State as employer

Authorities it was built on

2006 St Ate of Bihar and Ors. v. Amrendra Kumar Mishra cited by 15
1961 Dr. Rai Shivendra Bahadur v. The Gover.nfng Body of the Nalanda College cited by 10
2007 State of Rajasthan and Ors. v. Jagdish Chopra cited by 6
2008 Virender Chaudhary v. Bharat Petroleum Corporation &ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2018 Dinesh Kumar Kashyap & Ors. Etc. v. South East Central Railway & Ors. Etc. relied on
2022 The State of Uttar Pradesh v. Karunesh Kumar & Ors referred to
2020 Aneesh Kumar V.S. & Ors. v. State of Kerala & Ors. referred to
2020 Chairman/managing Director, U.P. Power Corporation Ltd. & Others v. Ram Gopal referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 3 referred to

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