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Air Commodore Naveen Jain v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 13 S.C.R. 241
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 3 October 2019

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What the Court ordered

Held as under: 12 (2009) 5 SCC 1 13 (2010) 1 SCC 335 AIR COMMODORE NA VEEN JAIN v.

Judgment, page 13

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Armed Forces Tribunal Act, 2007: Promotion policy – Criteria – Merit-cum-seniority or Seniority-cum-merit – Appellant along with nine other officers were considered for promotion against five vacancies in the rank of Air Vice Marshal – Appellant could not be promoted though he was first in the merit list in view of the fact that he was placed at serial no.3 in the seniority in the select list of four candidates – The first officer on the select list was promoted to the rank of Air Vice Marshal against the first available vacancy whereas, next two vacancies arose after the appellant attained

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