Supreme Court of India

Dharmendra Prasad & Ors. v. Sunil Kumar & Ors.

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Reported as [2019] 14 S.C.R. 763
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 6 December 2019

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Service Law: Seniority – Determination of – Of the employees of a statutory body – Different appointment letters issue d to different categories i.e. General, OBC, SC and ST at different ti me – Date of appointment of appellants (candidates higher in m erit list) was later than the date of appointment of respondents (candida tes who were lower in the merit list) – Later seniority list declared on the basis of the merit list – Seniority list was chall enged before the Tribunal taking the plea that the list should be as per the date of appointment and not merit list – Application dismissed – In

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