Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Anr. v. Lt. Col. P.K. Choudhary and Ors.

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Reported as [2016] 2 S.C.R. 426

Bench T. S. Thakur and Kurian Joseph JJ.

Decided 15 February 2016

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the additional 141 vacancies which ought to have been allocated to Arms Support in the year 2009 were unfairly denied to them.

Judgment, page 28

Authorities it was built on

1992 Food Corporation of India v. Kamdhenu Catile Feed Industries cited by 22
1988 Dr. Chakradhar Paswan v. State of Bihar & Ors. cited by 11
2010 State of Bihar & Ors. v. Kalyanpur Cements Ltd. cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2022 The State of West Bengal & Ors. v. Gitashree Dutta (dey) relied on
2020 The State of Jharkhand and Ors. v. Brahmputra Metallics Ltd., Ranchi and Anr. relied on
2023 Sivanandan C T and Others v. High Court of Kerala and Others referred to
2022 Jarnail Singh & Ors v. Lachhmi Narain Gupta & Ors referred to
2020 The Secretary, Ministry of Defence v. Babita Puniya & Ors. distinguished
2018 Maj. Amod Kumar v. Union of India & Anr. distinguished

Of those, 2 relied on · 2 distinguished · 2 referred to

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