Supreme Court of India

Suraj Bhan Meena & Anr. v. State of Rajasthan & Ors.

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Reported as [2010] 14 S.C.R. 532

Bench Altamas Kabir J.

Decided 7 December 2010

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SERVICE LAW· c Promotion through reservation - Consequential seniority - Held: The position after the decision in M. Nagaraj's case is that reservation in promotion is dependent on the inadequacy of representation of members of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward 0 Classes and subject to the condition of ascertaining as to whether such reservation was at all required - The High Court has rightly quashed the notifications dated 28.12.2002 and 25.04.2008 issued by the Government of Rajasthan providing for consequential seniority to the members of the Schedules Caste and Scheduled

Authorities it was built on

2006 M. Nagaraj and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors cited by 51
1995 Union of India and Ors. Etc. v. Virpal Singh Chauhan Etc. cited by 37
1996 Ajit Singh Januja and Others v. State of Punjab and Others cited by 17
1999 Ajit Singh and Ors. v. The State of Punjab and Ors. cited by 15
1961 The General Manager, Southern Railway v. Rangachari cited by 5
1999 Sh. Ram Prasad Etc.etc v. Sh. D.K. Vijay and Ors. Etc. Etc cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2020 Pravakar Mallick & Anr. v. The State of Orissa & Ors. relied on
2020 Bajrang Lal Sharma v. C. K. Mathew and Ors. referred to
2019 B K Pavitra and Ors. v. The Union of India and Ors referred to
2019 Sudhakar Baburao Nangnure v. Noreshwar Raghunathrao Shende & Ors. referred to
2018 Jarnail Singh & Others v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta & Others referred to
2017 The State of Tripura & Ors. v. Jayanta Chakraborty & Ors. referred to
2017 B. K. Pavitra & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2016 Suresh Chand Gautam v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2012 Salauddin Ahmed & Anr. v. Samta Andolan referred to
2013 H. P. Scheduled Tribes Employees Federation & Anr. v. Himachal Pradesh S. V. K. K. & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 1 relied on · 8 referred to · 1 mentioned

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