Supreme Court of India

Ajit Kr. Bhuyan and Others v. Debajit Das and Others

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Reported as [2018] 13 S.C.R. 1012
Bench A. K. Sikri and Ashok Bhushan JJ.
Decided 23 October 2018

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it was virtually a case of fraud, at least on three counts.

Judgment, page 15

From the headnote

Service Law – Promotion – Manipulation of the system to give out of turn promotion – Respondent no.1 was appointed as Asstt. Engineer in PWD on 30.09.1996, thereafter, he was p romoted to the post of Asstt. Executive Engineer in the year 2002 – Subse quently, a post for ex-cadre Executive Engineer was created and re spondent no.1 was promoted to the said post by notification dated 02.04.2005 – Later, respondent no.1 was granted regular promot ion by encadering him as Executive Engineer on recommendation o f the selection committee on 27.07.2005 – It was alleged that there we re only 10

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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