Supreme Court of India

U.V. Mahadkar v. Subhash Anand Chavan and Others

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Reported as [2015] 10 S.C.R. 771
Decided 2 September 2015

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, this appeal is allowed and the impugned order passed by the High Court is set aside. c Civil Appeal No. 844 of 2012:.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Service Law: Selection - To the post of Head of Department of Agronomy - On merit-cum-seniority basis - By expert committee - Challenged- Selection set aside by High Court directing to hold fresh meeting for consideration of the selection - On appeal, held: In view of proviso to statue 41 of the Universities Statutes, the recommendation of the Committee was to be on the basis of merit and seniority- In such cases merit shall have to be given preference over the seniority- In the matter of selection and promotion, normally the courts should not interfere with the decision of Committee of

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