Supreme Court of India

Secretary, Minor Irrigation Deptt. & R.E.S. v. Narendra Kumar Tri Path I

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Reported as [2015] 5 S.C.R. 742
Bench V. Gopala Gowda J.
Decided 7 April 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that: (A) Once an incumbent is appointed to a post according to rule, his seniority has to be counted from the date of his appointment and not according to the date of his confirmation.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service law: Seniority - Ad hoc appointment - c Regularization of - Claim for seniority from the date of appointment - Held: In the instant case, the appointment was made after due selection process and was neither against the rules nor as stop gap arrangement - Service was subsequently regularised - Employee is entitled to count ad hoc service for his senioritY1- Uttar Pradesh Regularisation of Ad Hoc Appointments (on posts within the purview of the Public Service Commission) (Second Amendment) Rules, 1989 - r. 10 - Uttar Pradesh Regularisation of Ad hoc Appointments (on posts within the

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