Supreme Court of India

Pinaki Chatterjee & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2009] 5 S.C.R. 368
Bench S.S. Sinha and Dr.Mukundakam Sharma JJ.
Decided 31 March 2009

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that it is not G permissible to appoint a person directly as a mate and it is only a promotional post from Class IV post of gangman and keyman.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service Law - Regularization - Of employees appointed on a casual basis in ex-cadre post for a temporary project - c Held: The appointment was not regular- It was for project work in ex-cadre post and not in conformity with Articles 14 and 16 and recruitment rules framed under proviso to Article 309 of Constitution - Employees not entitled to be regularized - Constitution of India, 1950 - Articles 14, 16 and proviso to r Article 309 - Railway Board Circular dated 11.5.1973. ~ The appellants were directly appointed in Group ' ' posts in Railway Electrification Project. The question for

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