Supreme Court of India

Chairman & Managing Direcrgr Central Bank A of India & Ors. v. Central Bank of India Sc/st Employees Welfare "association & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 55

Bench J. Chelameswar and A.K. Sikri JJ.

Decided 9 January 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that in the matter of B promotion by selection to posts within Class I which carry an ultimate salary of Rs 2250 in the revised scale of pay per month or less, there is no reservation in favour of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes but they are entitled to the concession contained in para 2 of the Office C Memorandum dated 26-3-1970 issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

Service Law: Reservation - In promotion by selection - From one officer rank/grade to next rank in the grade - For SC/ST employees of Public Sector Bank - Permissibility - Held: By virtue of Office Memorandums dated 1. 11. 1990 and 13.8.1997 issued by Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievance and Pensions, Department of Personnel and Training, o Government of India (which was adopted by the Bank) in matters of promotion within Group- posts which carry an ultimate salary of Rs.5, 7001- p.m. i.e. scale VII and above, there is no provision for reservation - However, there is no bar from

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

Where later benches applied it

2022 Janhit Abhiyan v. Union of India referred to
2022 The State of Punjab and Another v. Anshika Goyal and Others referred to
2018 Jarnail Singh & Others v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta & Others referred to
2017 B. K. Pavitra & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. referred to

Of those, 4 referred to

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