Supreme Court of India

K.A. Nagamani v. Indian Airlines & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 5 S.C.R. 89

Bench Lokeshwar Singh Panta and B. Sudershan Reddy JJ.

Decided 27 March 2009

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, we concur with the view taken by the High Court that seniority alone was not the - determinative criteria for promotion, merit or comparative merit c was also taken into consideration by the Selection Board and the same is not contrary to law and guidelines.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Service Law: c Promotion - Recruitment & Promotion Rules - Whether statutory in nature or mere administrative instructions - Agreement/settlement arrived at between the Management and its officers' Association - Whether has the effect of protanto amending the Recruitment and Promotion Rules - '.i Held: Mere description of rules of Administrative practice as 'rules' does not make them statutory Rules - The agreement! settlement are complimentary to each other and have to be read together - Also it has-the effect of protanto amending the Recruitment and Promotion Rules - The Air Corporations

Authorities it was built on

1987 State of U.P., Etc. v. Rafiquddin & Ors. Etc. cited by 22

Where later benches applied it

2019 Dr. (major) Meeta Sahai v. State of Bihar & Ors. relied on
2020 Ramjit Singh Kardam & Ors. v. Sanjeev Kumar & Ors. referred to
2014 Chandigarh Administration & Another v. Jasmine Kaur & Others referred to
2022 Krishna Rai (dead) through Lrs & Ors v. Banaras Hindu University through Registrar & Ors. not applicable
2011 The Director General, Indian Council for Agricultural Research & Others v. D. Sundara Raju not applicable

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to · 2 not applicable

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