Supreme Court of India
State of Uttaranchal and Another v. Sri Shiv Charan Singh Bhandari and Others
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SERVICE LAW: Ad hoc promotion - Granted to junior - Held: senior c has right to be considered even for adhoc promotion -- If seniors are eligible as per the rules and there is no legal justification to ignore them, the employer, at his whim or caprice, cannot extend the promotional benefit to a junior on ad hoc basis. Ad hoc promotion - Granted to junior - Belated claim by seniors to promote them from the date their junior was granted ad hoc promotion - However on regular promotion, their seniority in promotional post maintained - Held: Though claim of promotion is based on the concept of
Authorities it was built on
- 1974 P.S. Sadasivaswamy v. The State of Tamil Nadu
- 2009 Union of India & Ors. v. M. K. Sarkar
- 2006 Karnataka Power Corporation Limited and Anr. v. K. Thangappan and Anr.
- 2007 New Delhi Municipal Council v. Pan Singh and Ors.
- 2011 Mahendra Singh v. State of Utiaranchal
- 2009 Ghulam Rasool Lone v. State of J & K & Ors.
- 2011 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. v. Ghanshyam Dass and Ors.
- 2007 State of Tamil Nadu v. Seshachalam
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 The State of West Bengal v. Debabrata Tiwari & Ors. Etc. Etc.
- 2018 Union of India and Others v. Chaman Rana
- 2018 Dr. Akshya Bisoi and Another v. All India Institute of Medical Sciences & Others
- 2025 The Chief Executive Officer & Others v. S. Lalitha & Others
- 2023 State of Orissa & Anr. v. Laxmi Narayan Das (dead) Thr. Lrs & Ors.
- 2019 Union of India & Ors. v. C. Girija & Ors.
Of those, 3 relied on · 3 referred to
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