Supreme Court of India

The Chief Executive Officer, Pondicherry Khadi and Village Industries Board and Anr. v. K. Aroquia Radja & Ors.

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Reported as [2013] 4 S.C.R. 562
Bench G.S. Singhvi, H.L. Gokhale and Ranjana Prakash Desai JJ.
Decided 12 March 2013

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What the Court ordered

For the reasons stated above both these appeals are allowed, and the impugned judgments and orders in Writ 8 Appeal No. 1131 of 2011 as well as one in Writ Petition No. 3181 of 2008 and Writ Petition No. 13428 of 2010 are set­ aside.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Service Law - Co-terminus employees (respondents) - Entitlement of, to continue in service after cessation of engagement of the person with whose engagement their services were made co-terminus - Held: Respondents were engaged only because their names were sponsored by the Chairman of the Pondicherry Khadi and Village Industries Board, a statutory body corporate - They did not come into the service either through the Employment Exchange or through any procedure in which they were required to compete against other eligible candidates - Also, the respondents had been clearly told that their

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