Supreme Court of India

Union of India & Ors. v. N.R. Parmar & Ors.

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Reported as [2012] 13 S.C.R. 555

Bench D.K. Jain and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.

Decided 27 November 2012

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the Civil Appeals, the Transferred C Case, as well as, the Transfer Case (filed by the direct recruits and the Union of India) are hereby allowed.

Judgment, page 56

From the headnote

Service Law - Seniority - lnter-se-seniority - Between direct recruit and promotee Income Tax Inspectors - Applicability of 'quota' and 'rota' principle - Vacancies for the year 1993-94 required to be filled up by promotion as well as direct recruitment - Simultaneously refeffed to Departmental Promotion Committee and to Staff Selection Commission respectively - Appointment of promotees prior to the direct recruits as the selection process for direct recruits could not be completed within the recruitment year - Determination of date of seniority of the direct recruits - Plea of promotees that

Authorities it was built on

2011 Pawan Pratap Singh & Ors. v. Reevan Singh & Ors. cited by 12
2000 Suraj Parkash Gupta and Others v. State of J & K and Others cited by 6
1998 Jagdish Ch. Patnaik and Ors. v. State of Orissa and Ors. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2018 Punjab and Haryana High Court at Chandigarh v. State of Punjab and Ors. relied on
2018 Prabhat Ranjan Singh & Anr. v. R.K. Kushwaha & Ors. relied on
2022 Hariharan & Ors. v. Harsh Vardhan Singh Rao & Ors referred to
2022 Union of India & Anr. v. Citi Bank, N. A. referred to
2020 Dinesh Kumar Gupta and Others v. High Court of Judicature of Rajasthan Others referred to
2019 Vinod Verma v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2015 Director General of Foreign Trade and Anr. v. M/s. Kanak Exports and Anr. referred to
2020 C. Jayachandran v. State of Kerala & Ors. Etc. distinguished
2019 Bobindra Kumar & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. not applicable

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 5 referred to · 1 not applicable

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