Supreme Court of India

Manjit and Ors. v. Union of India and Anr.

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Reported as [2021] 1 S.C.R. 474
Bench Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, Indira Banerjee and Sanjiv Khanna JJ.
Decided 29 January 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above factual background, we are not inclined to entertain the petition under Article.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Service Law: Largess Scheme – Providing for entry into service for c ertain wards of serving employees of railways, without und ergoing a competitive selection – Writ Petition u/Art. 32 – Seeking direction to the State to appoint the petitioners under the Scheme – Held: The Union Government after revisiting the Scheme, upon d irection of the Courts, has terminated the Scheme – The Scheme h as rightly been terminated as the same provided for an avenue of back door entry into the service, which was at odds with Art. 16 of the Constitution – The petitioners can claim neither a veste d right nor

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