Supreme Court of India
State of Orissa & Anr. v. Dhirendra Sundar Das & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We hold that the Judgment of the Division Bench is liable to be set aside since the contesting Respondents did not have a vested or fructified right of promotion to OAS Class II posts which had arisen during the recruitment year 2008.
Judgment, page 21
From the headnote
Service Law – Appointment – On 28.04.08 the appellant-State issued letter to all the Departments inviting recomm endations for appointment by way of promotion to the Orissa Administrative Service Class-II (OAS Class-II) cadre having 150 vacancies – Re cruitment process was to be undertaken in accordance with the 1 978 Rules and the 1978 Regulations – Concerned Departmental uthorities forwarded the names of 559 candidates, including the Respondents , for consideration – State decided to keep the recruit ment process for OAS Class-II posts for the recruitment year 200 8 on hold, till the
Authorities it was built on
- 1989 Supreme Court Employees Welfare Association Etc. Etc. v. Union of India & Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 2011 State of Punjab v. Davinder Pal Singh Bhullar & Ors. Etc
- 2008 Rangaiah v. State of Karnataka
- 1959 N. R. Grose Alias Nikhil Ranjan Grose v. The State of West Bengal
- 2011 Deepak Agarwal & Anr. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.
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- 2025 Independent Sugar Corporation Ltd. v. Girish Sriram Juneja & Ors.
- 2022 State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. v. Atul Kumar Dwivedi & Ors
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